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.
ODD KENLike a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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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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If ever the fall is the ground, someone tell her I’m this close to soil, and I can feel it!
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No one thing stays the same after a goodbye.
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Like her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
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The broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
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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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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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Give everything some time; pain hasn’t learn to walk yet.
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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 guess there’s so much in your absence that kills my soul from the burning wood to ash.
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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.
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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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Often times the language is different; by which I mean, I love her, and it’s the only stammer I’ve ever known.
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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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Respect pain. Every heartfelt word is first born from sadness.
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