“I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident —
before the mouthful of gravel and blood,
I swore we were flying.”
―
like my first bicycle accident —
before the mouthful of gravel and blood,
I swore we were flying.”
―
“Do not let my fickle flesh go to waste
As it keeps my heart and soul in its place
And I will love with urgency but not with haste”
―
As it keeps my heart and soul in its place
And I will love with urgency but not with haste”
―
“I’m never gonna wait
that extra twenty minutes
to text you back,
and I’m never gonna play
hard to get
when I know your life
has been hard enough already.
When we all know everyone’s life
has been hard enough already
it’s hard to watch
the game we make of love,
like everyone’s playing checkers
with their scars,
saying checkmate
whenever they get out
without a broken heart.
Just to be clear
I don’t want to get out
without a broken heart.
I intend to leave this life
so shattered
there’s gonna have to be
a thousand separate heavens
for all of my flying parts.”
―
that extra twenty minutes
to text you back,
and I’m never gonna play
hard to get
when I know your life
has been hard enough already.
When we all know everyone’s life
has been hard enough already
it’s hard to watch
the game we make of love,
like everyone’s playing checkers
with their scars,
saying checkmate
whenever they get out
without a broken heart.
Just to be clear
I don’t want to get out
without a broken heart.
I intend to leave this life
so shattered
there’s gonna have to be
a thousand separate heavens
for all of my flying parts.”
―
“I wanna know what you see
when you look in the mirror
on a day you’re feeling good.
I wanna know what you see
when you look in the mirror
on a day you’re feeling bad.
I wanna know the first person
who taught you your beauty
could ever be reflected
on a lousy piece of glass.”
―
when you look in the mirror
on a day you’re feeling good.
I wanna know what you see
when you look in the mirror
on a day you’re feeling bad.
I wanna know the first person
who taught you your beauty
could ever be reflected
on a lousy piece of glass.”
―
“When they ask why we stayed together for so long I say, I don’t know. I just know that we cried at the exact same time in every movie. I know we blushed everyday for the first two years. I know I always stole the covers and she never woke me up. I know the exact look on her face, the first night she used my toothbrush. The next day, I brushed my teeth like thirtysome times, ‘cause I didn’t want to let her go. You have to understand when it hurt to love her, it hurt the way the light hurts your eyes in the middle of the night, but I had to see, even through the ruin, if what we were burying were seeds. There were so many plants in our house, you could rake the leaves even through that winter when I was trying to make angels in the snow of her cold shoulder. She was still leaving love notes in my suitcase; I’d always find them.”
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