Just as it demands blood, to meet bone, It’ll forever take something painful to understand pain.
ODD KENThere’s not much I know about forgetting. By which I mean I can hear her name from a distance; and it still breathes cold in my chest.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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It is my dying wish to travel around the world; to feel this hurt in a slightly different way!
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When I say I love you, I mean something raw something below the surface of all waters; something almost too naked and true!
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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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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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In the end the salt calls the ocean home; and I guess this is why drowning has always been a part of loving you.
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I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
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Somedays depression is tender, as though hurting is just an art; and that maybe she didn’t break me more than enough!
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There’s not much I know about forgetting. By which I mean I can hear her name from a distance; and it still breathes cold in my chest.
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Perhaps I mistook the pain with work in progress.
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All through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.
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There’s a constant battle of me and healing; all of which still sits burning and intricately perplexed in ink.
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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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And when the cold comes, I swear I can feel her in my bones.
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I don’t think the world is ever getting better; I guess maybe people just find new ways to hide what kills them.
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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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