The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.
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.
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What a terrifying thing it is to heal.
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You are more than the things that have hurt you.
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Maybe I hold onto pain because I don’t know who I am without it.
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You touch me as though you have forgotten my skin.
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Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.
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I surround myself with trees in the hope I might become a growing thing, too.
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All I really know is whatever the cost you’re worth it.
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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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It was always you who felt like water when my whole body was a flame.
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What a gentle curse: to still want you after all we’ve been.
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Just because the pain is comfortable doesn’t mean you have to wear it.
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I knew I loved you before I understood what that meant.
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She spoke with so much hope, the future dancing on her lips like a flame.
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Love is a child with a gun in her hand.
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I swear my bones can feel it whenever you speak my name.
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