She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
BLAKE AUDENSome days, all of it aches with beauty. Others, it all just aches with you.
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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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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 knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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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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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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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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I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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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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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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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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