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.
ODD KENBreathe in the pain and bring out the wounds. It’s only a process and you’ll learn to survive the rest.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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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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Please the night’s cold, not her name again!
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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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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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Today I can see the cracks on the wall they’re visible; but I can tell they are finding their way to soil, And so am I.
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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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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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All through the depression, I was the soft toy in the hands of a baby with sharp teeth.
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Perhaps I mistook the pain with work in progress.
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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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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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In the end not every bleeding thing dies; at least, not like a paper plays in fire.
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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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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 knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
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Most days missing her is my only choice between death and dying.
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And when the cold comes, I swear I can feel her in my bones.
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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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I held my breath underwater and felt surrender in my lungs; maybe this too counts as love.
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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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This ‘missing you’ It begs for water; it cries your name.
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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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Sometimes even in pain we smile to the world until we think we’re dying.
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Like her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
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Sorry to a heavy heart in the morning; sorry to waking up and being yourself the only reason to cry.
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The broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
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