“There is a hole in everything and I find you there, smiling like you don't have anywhere else to be.”Tagged: 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.”Tagged: Poetry, Love
“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…”Tagged: 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.”Tagged: Poetry, Love, Loss, Breakups, Moving On
“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…”Tagged: Love, Endings, Change, Poetry
“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”Tagged: Identity, Embracing Differences, Acceptance
“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…”Tagged: Literary Sext
“I think I could have loved you better than anyone, and I can’t stop making lists of all the times I almost told you that.”Tagged: Love, Missed Chances
“I want the cottage. I want the green grass and the tomato plants. I want the peace in you; the front porch rocking chair lullaby; our cricket legs rubbing together under the covers. We can’t have it all. I know that, but humor me. We can’t have it all, but we can have most of it.”Tagged: Dreaming, Simple Life, Hoping, Better Days, Vision
“I am hungrier than you are and I still know when to stop. I am lonelier than you are and I still know when to leave”Tagged: Hungry, Stop, Loneliness, Leave
“You are not a reflection of the people who can’t love you.”Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Reflection
“I want the cottage. I want the green grass and the tomato plants. I want the peace in you; the front porch rocking chair lullaby; our cricket legs rubbing together under the covers. We can’t have it all. I know that, but humor me. We can’t have it all, but we can have most of it.”Tagged: Dreaming, Hoping, wishing
“When they ask you what your favorite moment is, you will say her. You will always say her.”Tagged: Love
“Forgive yourself for the things that turned you into a ghost. Let me watch you love yourself solid again.”Tagged: Forgive Yourself, Ghost, Love