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The Anatomy of Being

This is the anatomy of our being. This is our flesh, our muscles, our sinews and our limbs all tangled up beside each other. And this, is what they found when we left it all behind.

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Shinji Moon (19)

“Once, I believed in you like a poem, turned your heart into a metaphor for my heart, turned our mouths into honey and caramel lozenges. But metaphors come and metaphors go, and not even seasons have the courtesy to stay till dawn.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, breakup, Heartbreak, Relationships, Love & Relationships

“I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a metaphor - that it can never be simple as looking at you and saying yes, yes, yes.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Hatred, Sensitivity, Appreciative, Love

“You were the one that I wanted to feel the earth rotate with.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Desire, Love, Relationship, Feelings, Together

“I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know there’s nothing but light when I see you.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Perspective

“I'm writing you a letter that I'll burn over the stove just to watch the light between us flame and burn out again.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Breaking Up

“You will lie to everyone you love. They will love you anyways.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: people care, Loved Ones, Love, human actions, Loved

“Do you know how it hurts to touch you knowing that in the morning I’ll still wake up alone?”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Alone, Left Alone, Leaving, Waking up alone

“You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will realize that nowhere seems like home anymore.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, lost, Alone

“Sometimes, I fall more in love with an echo than the real thing.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, admiration, Fantasy, Imagination

“I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: overflowing love, love quotes, Symbolism

“You were the one that I wanted to feel the earth rotate with.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love

“You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, and that is a brave thing indeed.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Confidence

“You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, and that is a brave thing indeed.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Feeling, Bravery, beauty, Cute Things To Say To Him

“I fall more in love with an echo than the real thing.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Reality

“And one day, you’ll wake up and realize that you are too big for your own skin. Molt. Don’t be afraid.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Existential Crisis

“English language, my ass. When you kiss me, my syntax hits the wall across the room and shatters in shards of words that scatter across the floor.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love Poem, Kissing

“I don’t want to know what your favorite color is but I do want to know what color you bleed when you’re with me.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love Poem, Colors

“You were the first word that I ever wanted to write.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love Poem

“I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know that there’s nothing but light when I see you.”

— Shinji Moon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love Poem, Light