Nicolas

“who knew my haven
would be my coffin?

dead is the safest i've ever been.
i've never been so alive.”
― Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

“In my dream, I built a funeral pyre.
For myself, you understand.
I thought I had suffered enough. I thought this was the end of my body: fire
seemed the right end for hunger;
they were the same thing.”
― Louise Glück, Poems, 1962-2012

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair