Stay I whispered, as you shut the door behind you.
RUPI KAUR
RUPI KAUR
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My heart is beating, and I’m breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur You were not wrong for leaving you were wrong for coming back and thinking you could have me when it was convenient and leave when it was not.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Even if this is a mistake. It could only be right to be this wrong with you.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur You look at me and cry everything hurts. I hold you and whisper but everything can heal.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur The world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it – there is nothing purer than that.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur I am not a hotel room I am home, I am not the whiskey you want I am the water you need, don’t come here with expectations and try to make a vacation out of me.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur I can’t wrap my head around the fact that I have to convince half the world’s population that my body is not their bed.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Sometimes I stop myself from saying the words out loud as if leaving my mouth too often might wear them down.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur We began with honesty let us end in it too.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur If I’m not the love of your life I’ll be your greatest loss instead.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Other women’s bodies are not our battle grounds.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur I didn’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less I loved myself.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.
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