Jade

“Because you could not master whatever enmeshed you

you became its slave -

You learned this bitterly, early. In order not to become its slave

you had to become its master.

You became its master.

Even as master, of course, you remain its slave.”
― Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

“I have launched myself from tall places and hoped no one would catch me.
I have ended relationships because suddenly I was also exposed, but isolation is not safety, it is death.
If no one knows you're alive, you aren't.”
― Neil Hilborn

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“It was a long time ago. It doesn’t matter anymore. And yet I cannot let it go. I cannot let it go.”
― Sylvia Plath