I cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
BLAKE AUDENPlease don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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There’s a weight to it, this missing you.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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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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I am a child of autumn: At home amongst things that only know of falling.
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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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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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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 miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
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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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I didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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There are pieces of you in all the things you have loved. This is how we live forever.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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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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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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And again I wake up hoping today is the day I don’t miss you.
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