Sometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.
ODD KENI knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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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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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’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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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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What if love has always been the quench and the fire? or perhaps all we need to lose to find all we need to have?
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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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Love is a job doer and a man slayer. Both equally efficient, until the taste of it is most felt on the cold side of the ribs.
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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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I can feel the dust of her skin in my skin; and I think maybe that means these bones of mine have grown weary of crying too.
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No one thing stays the same after a goodbye.
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Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
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I can sing love; only I’m afraid the lyrics might get shattered again.
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Please the night’s cold, not her name again!
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Respect pain. Every heartfelt word is first born from sadness.
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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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