We left pieces of ourselves in each other.
JULIA KELLOGG HENRYYou have always been able to manipulate my heart in such a way that even though I’m bleeding, I offer you band aids that are holding me together.
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After the vines that were tightly wrapped around my neck finally loosened, I made a vow to never take breathing for granted again.
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You have caused many oceans to pour from the very eyes everyone says I got from you.
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I come as a full course meal, I will no longer hand myself out like a menu and wait for people to pick me out.
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Run. Run as fast as you can it doesn’t matter where as long as you feel the wind against your skin. As long as you leave everything safe behind you and don’t look back.
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Sometimes I just want to put my hands in the air and scream all the reasons I love life into the wind. Until someone comes along to celebrate with me.
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Won’t you let me sail the waves with you, we can dive into the darkest depths of each other and if you ever feel like drowning, I promise I will be there to bring you back to solid ground.
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I’ve grown to enjoy solitude it doesn’t feel as lonely when you are accompanied by a pen and paper.
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When everyone that exists right now becomes history packed into the soil and stars I wonder what they will learn about us.
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Forgiveness is a baked good it takes time and patience and I used to enjoy bouncing around the kitchen mixing sugar and love- but I don’t bake anymore.
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Some things can’t be explained not even with poetry.
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Embrace the feeling of being you. You are existing- and that is extraordinary.
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Dear me, I love you the most when you are being yourself.
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Last winter was colder than usual. Maybe it was the warmth that died with the millions of lives covid stole, or maybe it was the way close people betrayed me and left a gaping hole.
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I can’t wait to collect memories from every corner of the earth to splash in the vastness of this beautiful world.
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I’ve scattered poems all across this world so that if you ever decide to wonder about an old friend you could see that despite all my anger really- I just miss you.
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Thoughts are just visitors passing through our minds, sometimes they stay awhile uninvited- anxiety.
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We lock away our secrets and push them deep down so they feel farther away but they will always be inside us, no matter how well we hide the key.
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Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
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Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
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Writing saved my life when it all became too much. I poured my pain out into poetry I let the paper absorb everything I’d been holding on for years.
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I love the days when the earth smiles back.
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But maybe, We don’t need to be whole to be complete, maybe the fact that we are all a little unfinished is what makes us so alluring, so human.
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I have had many highs and lows in my short life neither stays long enough to be familiar.
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Piece by piece we rebuild the moon each night.
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It gives me chills the way the world trembles when the past is on its way back.
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You have always been able to manipulate my heart in such a way that even though I’m bleeding, I offer you band aids that are holding me together.
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