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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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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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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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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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 have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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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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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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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 have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
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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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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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