My mother always told me that love is like a plant, but she never prepared me for the realization that too much love towards the wrong person can drown your heart until it rots.
EMILY KURCWhen the leaves begin to fall, I find myself returning to old playlists in hopes that I can feel you holding my hand, or kissing me goodnight, or hear you singing my name into songs and blueing when it makes no sense.
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I hope you think of me during every thunderstorm.
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Spill yourself onto the page with ink and a half healed heart and watch the words blossom.
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I taught you how to love so you could get it right with someone else.
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I bet my words are still tangled beneath that streetlight fighting for the right combination to stay.
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I learned to make art with my broken heart.
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Be here with me tonight, and lets sing the saddest moon song there ever was.
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You don’t deserve my poetry. I hate that I give you that satisfaction still.
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Leave me like you mean it. My heart can’t keep waiting for you.
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He grabbed my hand as the flames licked at my feet and the devil and I danced.
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The sun touched your skin with innocent delicacy as if you were a work of out that was made to be admired deeply.
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Each night I sit at my windowsill like a wolf howling to the moon, hoping that somewhere you feel me calling to you.
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Soft and sweet and wrapped around your fingertips.
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When I look at you, I see the moon – I wish you could see that you’re every poets muse.
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A sea of jumbled emotions I had longed to live again, a feeling that no metaphor could match.
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Each time I fall back in love with myself, I leave my pen and paper behind. It isn’t personal, or maybe it is. I just a always thought that poetry was for the hurting.
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