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.
RENEE STONEHere you are, another heartache to guard under my wings as I wait wondering when it’ll be time for me to fly.
More Renee Stone Quotes
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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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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 wonder why I’m so empathetic, why people perceive me to be so kind. I don’t want my heart to burn when there’s no one burning mine.
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To be understood and accepted could change so many lives.
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My body is a field site of muscle memory and weathered bones.
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I wish you could feel it when it’s dark at night, and I think of you when I pass the streetlights. But I know you feel the care without me being there.
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We’re so distant, words can’t save us.
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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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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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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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People struggle with words that spill and overwhelm you because they themselves are sinking.
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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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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 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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I overwhelmingly write from sadness – in songs, in prose, in verse.
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