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you.
and now as i write my poetry to you,
i know you’re not him, you’re different.
but i never thought i’d like different so much,
i never thought my heart would ache for different.
and it’s beautiful, and it’s tough,
and it’s everything at once.
and you only learn to value everything,
once you’ve let it all go.
and god, i wish i didn’t have to.
i wish i didn’t have to say goodbye to you.
to you, who got me in a way i had always hoped someone would.
to you who could become my better and my best half.
and god, it’s bittersweet and it’s sad, but it’s life.
but i’ll always hope for a life with you.
i’ll always hope for a tomorrow where i won’t have to say goodbye.
for a tomorrow that will let me have you.
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your flames burnt me and mine burnt you, yet we still held each other, despite that. but everything that burns, eventually turns to ashes, my dear. and no matter how much we try, we can’t hold on to ashes, we can’t hold on to something that is destined to slip away.
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“He’d never cared much for strawberries, but that summer her lips were so stained with the juices that they were all he tasted. And he’d never had a favourite fruit, but two years later, a new girl is sat in front of him, laughing at his jokes. “If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?” She asks playfully. And he remembers how her hands traced the veins in his neck and made their way across his chest. He remembers her soft breathing and limbs draped across his shoulders. “Strawberries.” He tells her. “I could live a life on nothing but strawberries.””
— S.Z. // Excerpt from a book I’ll never write #54 -“Strawberries” (via blossomfully)
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“and you play along because you want to die for love you always have.”
— Richard Siken, excerpt of Planet of Love
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“I knew we were temporary,“ she said. “Sometimes people come into your life and all you can do is appreciate them while they’re there, and try not to get attached to the way they bring light into your life; and try not to miss them when they leave.”
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i’ll never forget what you did for me, how you picked me up from the ground and helped me grow, how you never let me fall even when i tripped. even now, when i’ve been cast aside in a way that validated the way i’ve always felt about myself, when i have tripped with no one to catch me, i’ll never forget what you did for me. because you picked me back up and taught me how to rise again. because of you, i’ll continue rising. even without your love, even without you.
j.e.b. (( i owe that to you, after everything. ))
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We were never a good match, not in real life or on paper. Different cities, different religions, different backgrounds, different hobbies. But that was part of the motivation to make it work. And that’s what made it harder when it didn’t. Because it was like the universe and everyone in it was right, and we should’ve known, and we should’ve listened. But we wanted so badly to make it anyway that we just let ourselves fail. Because the truth is, some things just aren’t meant to be no matter how much you force them.
