I’m sorry for being this hard to love.
BLAKE AUDENYou were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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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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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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Maybe letting go isn’t all that different to loving you.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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What if love just isn’t enough.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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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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I have never known what happiness really means, but I’m sure it sounds a lot like your name.
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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 miss you. By which I mean I’m jealous of the soil that gets to hold your bones.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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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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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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Even heartbreak can find a way to feel like home.
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She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
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I cannot lose you quietly. It will take blood and bone to pull you from my chest.
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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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To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
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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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And again my mind runs to you in the way that rivers can’t help but return to the salt.
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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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What a fragile, dying thing love turned out to be.
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