Sometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.
ODD KENSomedays depression is tender, as though hurting is just an art; and that maybe she didn’t break me more than enough!
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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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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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 held my breath underwater and felt surrender in my lungs; maybe this too counts as love.
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Perhaps I mistook the pain with work in progress.
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Breathe in the pain and bring out the wounds. It’s only a process and you’ll learn to survive the rest.
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Just as it demands blood, to meet bone, It’ll forever take something painful to understand pain.
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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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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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The broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
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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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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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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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To me there was only ever you!
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