You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
BLAKE AUDENYou were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
BLAKE AUDENI swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
BLAKE AUDENOf course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
BLAKE AUDENI’m sorry for being this hard to love.
BLAKE AUDENSome days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
BLAKE AUDENThere are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a terrifying thing it is to heal.
BLAKE AUDENWe built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
BLAKE AUDENTo survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
BLAKE AUDENI surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
BLAKE AUDENShe lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
BLAKE AUDENI have no idea how I made it this far without you.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
BLAKE AUDENPlease don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
BLAKE AUDENI didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
BLAKE AUDENCan someone tell the birds she’s gone. They’re still singing for her and it’s breaking what’s left of my heart.
BLAKE AUDEN