To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
BLAKE AUDENYou are more than the things that have hurt you.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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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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I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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I know you will take the last of me and I will love you anyway.
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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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The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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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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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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I cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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