You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
BLAKE AUDENIt’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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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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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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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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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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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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I have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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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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My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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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 can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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