There was a hesitation in your touch only time could see.
EMILY KURC
EMILY KURC
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I have so much love to give even with these daggers still stuck in my heart.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I am still weighed down by unspeakable heaviness- It follows like shadow currents.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I thought time would heal my broken heart, but its been forever since I fell in love and I’m scared that you took pieces of me that can’t be replaced.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc Be here with me tonight, and lets sing the saddest moon song there ever was.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc He grabbed my hand as the flames licked at my feet and the devil and I danced.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc A place where our stories are rewritten, and six degrees of separation no longer troubles us.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc 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 KurcEmily Kurc I laugh and I cry and I reason on until the late night, but I never feel the urge to call you. The person that I once knew is forever frozen in time.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc Spill yourself onto the page with ink and a half healed heart and watch the words blossom.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I like to think of myself as the sun, but it gets really lonely all the way out here especially when everything I try to touch burns.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I know I write too many love poems, and perhaps this is me admitting that the love inside me is still there somewhere, stagnant – but its a cruel addiction. I need a intervention.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc There was a time when I loved you too much that it made me feel the darkest shades of blue. It’s been years now, but I’m seeing life in other colors again.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc A sea of jumbled emotions I had longed to live again, a feeling that no metaphor could match.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc There were still embers scattered around me from the bridges I have burned. I wonder if they can feel it too. The space between us lingering like a scarlet letter, I’m learning how to love again.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc I learned to make art with my broken heart.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc When 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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A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
Steven PressfieldSteven Pressfield You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Live for each second without hesitation.
Elton JohnElton John If you want to be happy, go ahead and don’t hesitate, don’t let anybody stops you from feeling that way.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
Helen KellerHelen Keller If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.
Kurt CobainKurt Cobain Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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