I spent a lifetime building shrine to things that can’t love me back. (music, poetry, you)
BLAKE AUDENMaybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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Of all the people I’ve been the man you loved is the only one I miss.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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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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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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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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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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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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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 have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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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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I don’t know how else to say it. I will love you for the rest of my life.
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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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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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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 taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
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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’m sorry for being this hard to love.
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