Painting over cracks as you watch the ceiling fall – not everything can be healed with love.
M.K. STANDBYThe knot in a grain of wood, a frost covering sodden grass. Mornings warmed by the rising sun and brewing coffee – the vision of the poet.
More M.K. Standby Quotes
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Words hold little scope, for a love that stretches far beyond the limitations of language.
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Don’t waste your words on me, your face speaks in volumes that your breath could never reach.
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A dishonor greater than any affair, is that of a friend who never was.
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Peace found me in a wordless embrace – in the rising of autumn sun, and the sound of turning pages.
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Hollow intent and echoes affection, a call with no response. Who could trust a dormant heart – where apathy is shaped like love?
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We didn’t know it was simpler, did we? Those days of sunburnt youth and carefree adventure. Knowing that indestructible optimism would waver with experience – would I have gripped it a little tighter? Held on a little longer?
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So long as we share a sky, in this life and any after – I’ll find my way back to you.
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I sit by the sea wall, willing the waves to stay. Pulling away with gentle abandon – they avenge me for doing the same.
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And in the end-you didn’t deserve my thoughts or my ink.
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And in the end when the money is gone – will you still stay it was worth it.
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I think the scars that you left me, they remind me you were real.
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Don’t give your heart to a poet – we see stories in a sentence and haunt you with our ink.
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Born in one country and raised in another – seperated by ocean, but tied in blood.
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My throat burns with the words left unspoken, air hangs still and silence hides the words you long to hear – stay.
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Just tell me that it won’t be the same- that one day I won’t look at you, and only see a stranger.
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