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How recklessly we turn from strangers and blindly back to lovers, to nothing.

Nicole Lyons

They build ladders from my spine and they climb and they fall and they break me, and they climb again.
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Break Build Myself Support
He left love letters at my door, and a chalk outline on the highway.
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Himself Letter Love Myself Way
You can fan the flames with hate or stroke the fire with love, either way, it’s going to burn.
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Burn Fan Fire Flame Hate Love Yourself
I write because suicide is no longer an option.
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Death Myself Option Suicide Writing
I have God in my words and the devil in my ear, and a sister who keeps telling me to find my magic.
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Devil God Magic Myself Sister Word
Pleasure or pain; I’ll take either as long as it is laced with passion.
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Myself Pain Passion
And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices, life.
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Choice Hard Life Nature Poet
You can’t tame a girl who has her head. In the clouds and one foot out the door.
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Tame Woman Yourself
How recklessly we turn from strangers and blindly back to lovers, to nothing.
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Love Path Relationship Stranger Travel
I have been covered in easy kisses from uneasy lips, and I know I smell weary again.
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Easy Kiss Lips Myself
You were a lifetime ago, yet here I am, still pulling pieces of you out of me.
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Break Up Life Pieces Time Yourself
You load your words as I bare my chest, and this will be the most beautiful death.
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Argument Beautiful Death Myself Word Yourself
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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Drink Myself Sleep Soul
I will not force a pretty smile upon my face to please eyes that no longer see me.
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Eyes Face Force Myself See Smile
She tasted like wildflowers; crushed, wet wild flowers carried in sticky palms through farmers’ fields, just before dawn.
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Carry Flower Hands Herself Instagram Captions Morning Taste Wild
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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Beautiful Courage Darkness Earth Herself Strange

How recklessly we turn from strangers and blindly back to lovers, to nothing.

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