I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
BLAKE AUDENIt’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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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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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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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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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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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 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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