To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
BLAKE AUDENTo survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
BLAKE AUDENEven heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a terrifying thing it is to heal.
BLAKE AUDENI have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
BLAKE AUDENAnd again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
BLAKE AUDENI am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
BLAKE AUDENI knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
BLAKE AUDENI know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
BLAKE AUDENOf all the people I’ve been the man you loved is the only one I miss.
BLAKE AUDENMaybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
BLAKE AUDENThe answer is you. I forget the question.
BLAKE AUDENMaybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
BLAKE AUDENI miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
BLAKE AUDENI swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
BLAKE AUDENIt was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
BLAKE AUDENAnd again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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