Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.
She was lost in her longing to understand.
How wild it was, to let it be.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
And in that moment I swear we were infinite.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.
A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.