That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.
LANG LEAVThat night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.
LANG LEAVI hope someday you will find me and remember what I once meant to you.
LANG LEAVYou were none, and now you’re all; your worth will rise, the more I fall.
LANG LEAVWhy do you write? he asked. So I can take my love for you and give it to the world, I reply. Because you won’t take it from me.
LANG LEAVIf you have to be with someone at all, then be with someone who makes you feel like you are still in control.
LANG LEAVYou’re young and there’s still so much ahead. So much uncertainty and doubt. It keeps you up at night-this wild, restless feeling. But you don’t know how free you are. For this short, miraculous time, you have no one to answer to, nothing to lose. You belong wholly to yourself.
LANG LEAVWe will remain unwritten through history, no X will mark us on the map; but in books of prose and poetry, you loved me once, in a paragraph.
LANG LEAVSummer was felt a little more; in autumn I began to fall. When winter came with all its white, you were mine to kiss goodnight.
LANG LEAVIn a sea of strangers, you’ve longed to know me. Your life spent sailing to my shores.
LANG LEAVI build my walls from the mess they leave.
LANG LEAVI want you to remember my lips beneath your fingers and how you told me things you never told another soul. I want you to know that I have kept sacred, everything you had entrusted in me and I always will.
LANG LEAVYes, we took it all for granted-but isn’t that such a blessed thing? When you’re not even thinking about what you have, because you never imagine you someday won’t.
LANG LEAVI don’t know if what we had was love, but if it wasn’t, I hope never to fall in love. Because of you, I know I am too fragile to bear it.
LANG LEAVAnything and everything, the two almost the same–everything says, have it all; anything, one to claim.
LANG LEAVKnowing sleep will set it right – if you were not to wake.
LANG LEAVI look for you, the way I was taught to look both ways when crossing the road. Uptight and wary, bracing myself for something I know could break me.
LANG LEAV