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 AUDENOf course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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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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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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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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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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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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My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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Some days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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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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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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