I used to think people were like lighthouses. That they were there to protect you. But they’re no. People are lime whirlpools. They pull you in; they drag you under. You have to work so hard just to keep your head above water.
LANG LEAVSome days it felt like a burden, to smile for you. To keep the lines of worry from etching into your forehead.
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You were none, and now you’re all; your worth will rise, the more I fall.
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He swept in like a tsunami, wave after wave, and I didn’t stand a chance. All those warnings, all the things they tried to prepare me for-lost in an instant-to the enormity of what I felt.
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I used to think I couldn’t go a day without your smile. Without telling you things and hearing your voice back.
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You may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn’t to save you but to show you how to save yourself.
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My indecision. I wanted everything because I didn’t want anything enough.
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Then there is the boy you can never stop thinking about. Whenever you see his name, it trips you up. Even if it’s one that belongs to many others, even if he belongs to someone else.
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If you love me for what you see, only your eyes would be in love with me.
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I had no way of knowing, when I was sitting alone in that tiny bedroom, that in just a few short months, I would meet the love of my life: a man who lived across the ocean from me, in a little house by the sea.
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You must emerge from adversity, scathed but victorious to tell your story and, in turn, light the way for others.
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He and I When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I. We are on par. He just is, I just am, and we just are.
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I learned that writing is the consolation prize you are given when you don’t get the thing you want the most.
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Maybe we slip in and out of alternate worlds through our minds and our imaginations, picking up scar tissue from other dimensions.
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Strange how it mattered so much, when now it matters so little.
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You only get one chance to fall in love with your heart still whole.
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There is one who you belong to, whose love- there is no song for.
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