It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
BLAKE AUDENWhat if love just isn’t enough.
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I have no idea how I made it this far without you.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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The answer is you. I forget the question.
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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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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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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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Of course, you don’t know how to love me. I’ve never known how to do that, either.
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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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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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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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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out 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 smile is an open flame and I have a paper heart.
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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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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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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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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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