When you and the world are out of breath, take the steps to ensure your own needs are met. By the moment you know someone can’t on their own, you’ll hopefully be ready to help.
RENEE STONETo the songs you haven’t heard from me. To the pains you haven’t felt for me.
More Renee Stone Quotes
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I’m writing on a blank page full of chances and hope.
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Imagine the unknown of what the beings around you cover up and struggle with everyday.
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When the silence fades and now sounds begin to bloom, I will grow to feel calm again. Healthily this time.
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It felt vulnerable to have people know my weaknesses, but there is so much strength from going back to the start and re-determining who you are.
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We’re so distant, words can’t save us.
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The thought of you having to try hurts because it feels like you should have known to let me go before you grabbed ahold.
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It’s really hard to grow up wanting to provide people with resources and support and realizing that while I can and will do that – I also need more than I thought I would.
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I lost touch with the world around me – gone unnoticed by that which surrounds me, but I must find the presence of that which grounds me if I am to once again grasp onto everything I lost touch with.
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I try to build myself a bridge to cross every time I start to ruminate on my thoughts.
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The free for all of love – these tiny acts within our capability. In turn, reciprocation is of no concern. We just want people to listen and learn that love is granted to all.
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I can’t take it all in or else I’ll grow cold when the heat already escapes my fingers and toes.
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You are chaos in my heart – clogging up my arteries. I can’t move on or bring in more love than what was at the start
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I bear the fruits of your memory in the expression of my art for that is what you gave to the world.
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I overwhelmingly write from sadness – in songs, in prose, in verse.
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I was never lonely alone because love has come to me in many forms, and one of them was you.
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You wonder why you didn’t do it sooner – why you didn’t clear your mind when the clouds loomed.
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They hit like waves, the memories of those old summer days. Memories you’d have thought to erase, but they crash ashore without haste.
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If I could reverse time, I would spend more time looking into what ailed my loved ones – would have learned more about medical gaslighting.
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When you write me into your story, don’t set my end in stone. Feel free to let me go. I’d like to join your story, but remember I have my own.
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I grew up learning history about communities that would support their people (the idea that it takes a village), but all I see are so many people left on their own.
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I escaped the voice of darkness that was as pervasive as the silence that has come to replace all the words you had misplaced.
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Why is it that you have more practice describing weaknesses than strengths? It’s not your fault they never went to the lengths to teach you how to value your strengths.
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They tell me summer is coming, and soon we’ll be dancing on the shore. Waiting for the moonlight to light me up amongst the starlight.
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Tell me I’m sun-kissed, but you burn my skin. And you already told me, I was paper thin.
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We walk in circles, never knowing when to end the cycle our hearts put us in.
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Staring into the abyss full of art – hoping for the return of a glimmer or a spark.
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