I hide behind olive branches. So afraid of others knowing what lay beneath the broken rifle. The reality hitting the pavement like bullets that stem from war.
HANNAH PEARLSome days, my mind still flickers, but the light doesn’t stay on. Kind of like the hope I felt when your fingers squeezed my palm. But they simply call that a reflex.
More Hannah Pearl Quotes
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It wasn’t enough fading under surfaces, below waves, swollen pufferfish retracting this inflated love that not even you could believe in.
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What a shame – how the taste of you could rot even the cedar and cypress. How you fooled the redwood into believing narcissus’ pond was made for two.
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I’m used to falling, calling out timber right before the impact.
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I miss you a little less each day. You’re just a faded memory now – delicate; tucked away.
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My god is a moment, a whimsical idea, a whisper. A hope bending itself into a prayer.
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Indigo child, you hid secret under graves, picked at the lamb stuck between teeth, felt around for monsters we once reaped. But the monster turned out to be free.
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Some days, my mind still flickers, but the light doesn’t stay on. Kind of like the hope I felt when your fingers squeezed my palm. But they simply call that a reflex.
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If I had a wishing well, I’d wish you well. That the skies hold the key to all you’ve ever wanted, with or without me.
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Write me as if I were already a poem. Pen the stanzas as if storms and ships could birth something sacred. Color it a religious experience.
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Your promises shatter like glass. Sliced nerves for every lie that travels from your tongue.
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The hardest part is when the leaves abandon the trees. I seem to always lose a part of me.
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Caution! This vehicle stops quite frequently when overwhelmed.
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You are worthy of feeling incredibly and unapologetically alive.
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I wish I could bottle up this scent for winter days when it feels like this town will never see sun again.
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There’s a mystery in you; a puzzle to solve- mystical elements to a love that you’ve longingly ached for.
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