You are more than the things that have hurt you.
BLAKE AUDENAnd again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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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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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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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 never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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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 cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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I don’t know if you are the water or light. Only that you can flood a room.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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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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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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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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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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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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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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