I could lose myself in you or die blissfully, trying.
NICOLE LYONSBe patient with me, dear heart. The art of loving is a peculiar business when one has spent an eternity hating themselves.
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And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.
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You can’t tame a girl who has her head. In the clouds and one foot out the door.
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I have known love and I have known loss, but in the end, they both looked a lot like you.
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I still pick at these memories of you; I pick them until they bleed.
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They build ladders from my spine and they climb and they fall and they break me, and they climb again.
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She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.
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Be patient with me, dear heart. The art of loving is a peculiar business when one has spent an eternity hating themselves.
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Every now and then I roam the catacombs in my head and attempt to resurrect you, and make you shiny again.
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I swear if I were to rip myself open, it wouldn’t be blood that poured out of me, it would be him.
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She tasted like wildflowers; crushed, wet wild flowers carried in sticky palms through farmers’ fields, just before dawn.
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Every now and then even the sweetest souls burn it to the ground, just to remind the rest of them who exactly they are fucking with.
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I think I saw you again in the moonlight tonight, and I swear I could taste the hints of it alll.
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Be bold, child. You are rare and you are brazen light.
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I write because suicide is no longer an option.
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I breathe him in so deep that when he is gone I exhale and taste him again.
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