We’re in spring and I have learned how to be gentle and sharp; strong bark on budding trees. Hold out your hands. I’ll leave a pink kiss and a pocket knife.
SCHUYLERI still know the fabric of where I begin and end.
More Schuyler Quotes
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I know I could be an astronomer of this swooning.
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I’m choosing to believe things are getting better again. The give and take of joy, remembering a few days of ache does not mean forever.
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I’m remembering again, how loneliness has always made me brave.
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People have been washed away by less. I’ll take every step gently. So often, you can’t tell the rush of a riptide until you’re already at sea.
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In a dream, I’m holding you close and when I wake, I do. How lucky, to want and have.
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I want to wade into the water on the sidewalk, crawl out of this feeling without giving it a name. Take a lighter to love’s sticky edges so its sadness isn’t caught in my throat.
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How radiant you are, waiting by the window, watching for the sun to grant you more time to dance beneath it. You’ve let yourself dream again. Even if its in bites, even if it’s in a different voice than it used to be.
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This does not have to be a hard life to love. There is not enough time to let it stray too far from my hands.
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I’ll craft a haven that that cradles every joy and sorrow, but doesn’t hold them to keep.
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If every feeling comes like a wave, I try to decide what kind of coastline I’ll become.
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Change is not a four letter curse word I once believed it to be.
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I still know the fabric of where I begin and end.
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I descend into an unopened sky, the ocean floor, the final embrace of a graveyard. Find your fill of me before my blue pales like a sour moon.
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Meet me where happiness doesn’t feel like a false spring.
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Hold me here, where I feel less like a stranger to my own laughter. Where it’s easier to believe things happen for a reason or maybe, at least, out of a thousand winding roads my life might take, I will still find one that fits me.
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