how is it so easy for you to be kind to people he asked milk and honey dripped from my lips as i answered cause people have not been kind to me
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milk and honey
Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a differe
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he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips he didn't call me beautiful first he called me exquisite - how he touches me
Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.
you might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all other loves seem irrelevant
stay strong through your pain grow flowers from it you have helped me grow flowers out of mine so bloom beautifully dangerously loudly bloom softly however you need just bloom
What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives?
The kindest words my father said to me Women like you drown oceans.
i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own i want to fill so complete i could light a whole city and then i want to have you cause the two of us combined could set it on fire
Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry
Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you.
I didn't leave because I stopped loving you, I left because the longer I stayed the less I loved myself.
i am sending my love to your eyes. may they always see goodness in people. and may you always practice kindness. may we see each other as one. may we be nothing short of in love with everything the universe has to offer. and may we always stay grounded. rooted. our feet planted firmly onto the earth…
i am sending my love to your eyes. may they always see goodness in people. and may you always practice kindness. may we see each other as one. may we be nothing short of in love with everything the universe has to offer. and may we always stay grounded. rooted. our feet planted firmly onto the earth…
the art of smiling and nodding when someone brings their name up in conversation.
did i sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way. when it was i that taught you. when it was i that showed you how to fill. the way i needed to be filled. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave…
i am confident i am over you. so much that some mornings i wake up with a smile on my face and my hands pressed together thanking the universe for pulling you out of me. thank god i cry. thank god you left. i would not be the empire i am today if you had stayed.
be a sad replacement of the woman you let slip. nothing she does will excite you and this will break her.
how can she love a man who is busy loving someone he can never get his hands on again.
if you really believe fate works like that. as if it lives in the sky staring down at us. as if it has five fingers and spends its time placing us like pieces of chess.
i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you.