To hurt is simply an act of remembering. Of holding my skin to the edge in the hope I might feel anything at all.
BLAKE AUDENThese days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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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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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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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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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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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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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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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 answer is you. I forget the question.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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