“I always talk about love but I've seen a life where I can live without it, where I can eat with my hands, make the whole bed, and leave the light on for myself.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry
“The first step is always deciding to take the first step. The second step is miserable and we usually trip down the stairs then wait months before climbing back and starting again. What I'm trying to say is, be patient. What I'm trying to say is, I don't have the answers.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love
“Tell them you don't know how Eve felt when she saw Adam in one hand, and the rest of the universe in the other. Tell them you don't know how Eve felt when she wanted the universe.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love
“In this story, you find a way to pick the lock, to wake up, to climb out of the tower yourself. In this story, you're angry. In this story, you meet a dragon and it is afraid of you. In this story, you don't need to be saved.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love
“One day, it will be better. I will put the pen down and forget how to remember the nights I tried to write you out of my system like an addiction. It will be remarkable and I'll still want to call you.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love
“It's not that I don't love you, it's just that I can't pretend like the roof isn't caving in or that I don't see the smoke leaking out from the gaps in your teeth.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love
“We loved like we were trying to make up for lost time. Every touch an apology, an 'I'm sorry I haven't been with you every day since elementary school.'”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love
“I want to spend a decade just on your hands, until I can tell yours apart from someone else's just by brushing past them. I want to spend a century on your mouth, until I can taste you just by breathing near you.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love
“In the world where we are together, the rivers have hands that pray. The birds have learned how to cry and the worms have hearts and a central nervous system. Everything is human here.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love
“The first poem I wrote that wasn't about you was all in capital letters like it was trying to compensate for your absence.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love
“It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn't. If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. If they don’t come back, you sleep in the middle of the bed, learn how to make enough coffee for…”— Caitlyn Siehl, mixcloud.comTagged: Love, Endings, Change, Poetry
“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Love, Poetry, monster
“Don't you look at what I had for you and call it weak. Not when you were the one afraid of it. I stood there with my hands open, my mouth bruised tender with supplication. Don't you dare treat me like a victim of my own emotions, like being moved to my knees by love was a mistake that I regret. I wi…”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Weakness, Love, strength, Poetry
“There is a hole in everything and I find you there, smiling like you don't have anywhere else to be.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Poetry, Love, Loss, Breakups, Moving On
“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will fi…”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.comTagged: Literary Sext