It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
BLAKE AUDENLove is a child with a gun in her hand.
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Can someone tell the birds she’s gone. They’re still singing for her and it’s breaking what’s left of my heart.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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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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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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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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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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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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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 don’t know if you are the water or light. Only that you can flood a room.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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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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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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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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