I 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.
ODD KENAnd when the cold comes, I swear I can feel her in my bones.
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This ‘missing you’ It begs for water; it cries your name.
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Either the jump or the drown, loving her has always readied me for the fire.
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Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
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In the end not every bleeding thing dies; at least, not like a paper plays in fire.
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Sometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.
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I guess we all understand the love language fine; but maybe truth is we’re just too fluent in goodbyes.
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Give everything some time; pain hasn’t learn to walk yet.
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Pain is never too weak to leave the body still standing or laughing the same.
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These sharp edges you left behind, they cut so deep; and I guess maybe I am just not dying enough.
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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’ve been to the countryside a couple of times. Somedays it is all wood and grass and empty. Other days it feels like you!
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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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I swear I love her so much that somedays I can’t quite tell if I’m just a good liar.
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No one thing stays the same after a goodbye.
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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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