“I am kissing your hands and learning to speak again.”Tagged: Kissing, Learning To Love, Loving Again, Love
“You only call me when you’re drunk and you say the same thing every time. Something about regret. Something about love. Something about their feeling the same. Something about their tasting different.”Tagged: Drunk, Drunk Dials, Love, Uncertainty
“when we break up for the last time, I realize I’ve forgotten how to fall apart so I hold myself together instead”Tagged: Breakups, Leaving, Holding It Together
“words like I love you and I’m leaving you are next to each other when I thought they’d stay worlds apart”Tagged: I Love You, Leaving, Breakups
“If you don’t want to talk, we can watch SpongeBob. If you don’t want to talk, we can cry.”Tagged: talking, Crying, Friendship
“I wouldn’t know how to put one foot in front of the other if your strength hadn’t taught me.”Tagged: strength, Learning, Hope
“I want to be happy in a simple way where I stop having nightmares and trust love when it says it’s staying.”Tagged: Trust, Love, Happy
“we spend hours picking our lipstick and call it an afternoon well spent. underneath, our skin hurts. it is trying so hard to grow and we are trying so hard to stop it.”Tagged: Growing Up, beauty, Self-Image
“I pretend I don’t hear when someone calls my name from across the room. I swear it won’t happen again and then swear when it happens again.”Tagged: Poetry, Mistakes, Messiness
“What would she do if she wasn’t approved? She isn’t sure.”Tagged: Chronic Illness, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Heathcare Reform
“you taste like cigarettes and blue jelly ranchers and underneath that, the stars that died to make you.”Tagged: Literary Sext