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What We Buried

by Caitlyn Siehl

This book is a cemetery of truths buried alive. The light draws you in where you will find Caitlyn there digging. When you get close enough, she’ll lean in & whisper, Baby, buried things will surface no matter what, get to them before they get to you firs

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Caitlyn Siehl (17)

“I am a world that cannot be explored in one day. I am not a place for cowards.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

Tagged: Personality, Wild, spontaneous, Self-awareness

“The other day, you walked by me with your friends and I could feel the pity in your stare. Don’t you do that. Don’t you look at what I had for you and call it weak. Not when you were the one afraid of it.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Fear, Pity

“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.com

Tagged: Love, Lost Time, Apology, Sorry, Touch

“I am not a place for cowards.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-appreciation

“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.com

Tagged: 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.com

Tagged: 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.com

Tagged: 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.com

Tagged: 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.com

Tagged: 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.com

Tagged: Poetry, Love

“I can't remember ever not loving you.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

Tagged: 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.com

Tagged: 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.com

Tagged: Poetry, Love

“There is a hole in everything and I find you there, smiling like you don't have anywhere else to be.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

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.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

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 wi…”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

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.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Love, Loss, Breakups, Moving On