You are more than the things that have hurt you.
BLAKE AUDENYou are more than the things that have hurt you.
BLAKE AUDENWhat a terrifying thing it is to heal.
BLAKE AUDENI surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
BLAKE AUDENHer heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
BLAKE AUDENLove is a child with a gun in her hand.
BLAKE AUDENI miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
BLAKE AUDENMaybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
BLAKE AUDENYou taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
BLAKE AUDENWe built futures I’ll never get to visit. But I still have to watch them crumble.
BLAKE AUDENIt was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
BLAKE AUDENI swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
BLAKE AUDENYou were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
BLAKE AUDENThe embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
BLAKE AUDENSome days survival is all the living I can do.
BLAKE AUDENMaybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
BLAKE AUDENTo 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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