You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
BLAKE AUDENThe embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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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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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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I miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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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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My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
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Her smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without 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 didn’t believe in forever. But I did believe in you.
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