All through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.
ODD KENI forget how our story started; but these days I’m finding the missing pieces behind every exhale, where I left the words standing with sore feet.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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Maybe water is not entirely lost when soaked into sand. Maybe it finds a better resting place to call home; and I hope she did too.
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Breathe in the pain and bring out the wounds. It’s only a process and you’ll learn to survive the rest.
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Sorry to a heavy heart in the morning; sorry to waking up and being yourself the only reason to cry.
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Today I can see the cracks on the wall they’re visible; but I can tell they are finding their way to soil, And so am I.
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Please the night’s cold, not her name again!
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You’re gone. And I think I’m only trying to mean a lot to myself too.
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I’m a drunk poet; and I guess maybe I sipped too much of what I couldn’t buy of her.
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I’ve been quiet most of today. By which I mean I can see myself in the mirror; And believe me it is something hard to look at these days.
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Give everything some time; pain hasn’t learn to walk yet.
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Sometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.
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To heal is to be constantly reminded that once you learn to punch, you die with blood on your wrist.
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And when the cold comes, I swear I can feel her in my bones.
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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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I guess this has been my confusion; where I went wrong. Thinking that love could possibly come as a thing without the burns.
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I held my breath underwater and felt surrender in my lungs; maybe this too counts as love.
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