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.
ODD KENTo heal is to be constantly reminded that once you learn to punch, you die with blood on your wrist.
More Odd Ken Quotes
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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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You’re gone. And I think I’m only trying to mean a lot to myself too.
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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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The broken worlds we hide inside; that’s how we start to die!
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Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.
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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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Most days missing her is my only choice between death and dying.
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These sharp edges you left behind, they cut so deep; and I guess maybe I am just not dying enough.
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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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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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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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After healing I’ll run back to her – of course this poem demands a brutal ending!
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Like her name, some people are best left scrouged on the skin.
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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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