You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
BLAKE AUDENI spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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We built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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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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Of all the people I’ve been the man you loved is the only one I miss.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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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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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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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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