She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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To hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
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There are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
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Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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I have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
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I cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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