All through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.
ODD KENLike a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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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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I guess we all understand the love language fine; but maybe truth is we’re just too fluent in goodbyes.
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I guess there’s so much in your absence that kills my soul from the burning wood to ash.
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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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I’ve seen it, I know it too; love still dances in the fire after the rescue.
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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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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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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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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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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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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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The broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
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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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Like her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
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