Yes, this life is mine, but more often I watch it take place and my hands feel too far away to touch it.
SCHUYLERI don’t want to be a saint, I want a love I don’t fight alone to keep.
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I never lose pieces of me, I just gain new understanding.
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Please come here, but not too close.
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I’m writing about moving again, and when I write about moving, I really mean beginning. I’m beginning again.
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I’d get lost in this green, ferns leaning against the trees, soil stuck to my feet, never dream of finding my way back again.
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I sit on the bare floor, leave my palms unturned, and watch relief pool into one hand, and uncertainty in the next. I will try not to lean more one way or another, but let them hold each other as company.
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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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I don’t want to be a saint, I want a love I don’t fight alone to keep.
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I will still live like a ghost in the mornings; walking, listening, pouring coffee to finish sometime by the afternoon, when I’ve had enough of watching the world and do all I can to live in it.
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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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There will be a time where this hurts less and it will not mean it didn’t matter. It means that in the face of feeling something precious slip in my hands, I will always find a way back to myself.
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My love lives in my cheeks – gives me away by the first smile. all the lines from years spent laughing, warm with extra freckles in the summer; a poker face that doesn’t keep once my knees fold.
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Some mornings, I like to live like a secret; wake as quietly as I can, slip out of bed without so much as a wrinkle.
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Your anger, your sorrow, your fear, are okay to feel through, no matter how big it feels now.
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We’ve never seen what a happy life could look like if we chose to spend it by ourselves – sharing our beautiful lives with friends, family members, the occasional crush, and lounging out in that quiet space alone as if an idyllic sunned beach.
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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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