The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.
NICOLE LYONSOne day I will fall gracefully to pieces. Until then, I’ll just fall.
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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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I breathe him in so deep that when he is gone I exhale and taste him again.
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I write because suicide is no longer an option.
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I drink to the ones who can sit with their souls and not wish for sleep and the nightmares it brings.
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I am world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.
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Poetry is the loveliest art. It has a wretched way of revealing our own character when we think we are judging the poets.
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We were electric together, you and me; we turned hurting each other into a goddamned symphony.
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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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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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Dance with me. Bring my demons to their knees.
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You load your words as I bare my chest, and this will be the most beautiful death.
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Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun, from clever minds and bitter hearts.
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You were a lifetime ago, yet here I am, still pulling pieces of you out of me.
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And now I wander. Forever searching for the pieces of me I should have never given away.
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When I told you that I hadn’t been broken before; it wasn’t a fucking challenge.
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