The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
BLAKE AUDENOf all the people I’ve been the man you loved is the only one I miss.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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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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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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I don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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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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I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
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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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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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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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I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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