Do ghosts get tired of haunting? Of chasing old flames in darkness, of walking through dreams casting shadows against walls, against hearts, do they feel themselves forgotten?
EMILY KURCWe all show our true colors eventually – mine is dark and firesome red. I bet I burned you. I don’t expect to see you soon.
More Emily Kurc Quotes
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Occasionally, the sun is eclipsed by the body of a weeping human. Her tears make the soil harden and crust like the top of a burnt load of bread.
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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.
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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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In a dream like haze, the moment you left still spins on repeat like a broken record.
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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.
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Even the places we used to visit in this empty town feel lyrical. My heart can’t help but sing along even now, but I’m tired.
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Leave me like you mean it. My heart can’t keep waiting for you.
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Soft and sweet and wrapped around your fingertips.
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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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A sea of jumbled emotions I had longed to live again, a feeling that no metaphor could match.
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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.
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There was a hesitation in your touch only time could see.
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I no longer wear my heart on my sleeve. Instead, I keep this love folded up, like a tiny paper plane, until my heart is ready to soar again.
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Men like you were never meant for storms like us.
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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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