I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
MELISSA ANDERSONYou keep planting sympathy in rows meant for empathy and I’m here picking weeds with tears in my eyes.
More Melissa Anderson Quotes
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Tend to your own garden and watch the beauty you begin to see in others.
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I don’t want the world but I want you in mine.
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If you want to see the world as it should be, read poetry.
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Don’t reorient yourself to fit into an upside-down world.
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There are ocean waves inside these veins – constantly pulling me to you.
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Peaceful dreams find me pull me from reality in their arms I land.
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Love me as a storm would rage full force or not at all.
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If hearts are our homes, why do we let others break windows and throw stones?
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I was always looking at you.
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I fell into you first slowly, then all at once never to recover.
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From each scar today bloom the flowers of a kinder tomorrow.
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Hope is the gentle salve the world needs.
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You keep planting sympathy in rows meant for empathy and I’m here picking weeds with tears in my eyes.
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Whole, loved and worthy just as you are.
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I am the moments and memories from the past tied up with good intentions and mistakes from the future.
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In the rise and fall of all that is let me be your moon, your sun.
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Grace is found flourishing beneath skin blooming from each scar.
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I will remain soft in a world marked by hardness.
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I take a piece of you with me everywhere I go, so my soul never feels alone, and my heart always feels at home.
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Poems are nothing more than raindrops on a page falling from an open soul, staining the page one shade darker, and opening the one closed passage between me and you.
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Stars fell in our eyes the night sky our canvas, we painted the moon red.
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When I met my darkness clouds, swirled the night sky, refracted light danced in the wild eyes, freedom came for me.
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Making me feel small won’t make you feel tall I’ve faced bigger giants than you and watched them fall.
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Less rushing, more lingering. Less distraction, more noticing. Less comparison, more gratitude.
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Sew seeds of kindness let your compassion be that for which you are known.
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I see things written in the sky, Spelled out in plain and ordinary ways, even the unpoetic becomes magic when read next to you.
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