To survive is to drag yourself from the water and forget what it is to swallow salt.
BLAKE AUDENCan someone tell the birds she’s gone. They’re still singing for her and it’s breaking what’s left of my heart.
More Blake Auden Quotes
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I can’t imagine a universe where she is anything other than a masterpiece.
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She lost herself, a little, in that darkness but returned with stars beneath her skin.
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These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
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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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It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
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You were an ocean and I never did learn to breathe underwater.
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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 I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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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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My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
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Her heart is heavy and ruined with hope.
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Please don’t let me sleep. I’ll only dream of her.
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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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Some days survival is all the living I can do.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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