Abbie Bergested

“do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
i want to be so complete
i could light a whole city
and then
i want to have you
cause the two of us combined
could set it on fire”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“you might not have been my first love
but you were the love that made
all the other loves
irrelevant”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“how. did i sit here soaking in the idea that no one else would love me that way. when it was i that taught you. when it was i that showed you how to fill. the way i needed to be filled. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not these things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these once you left.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“if you were born with
the weakness to fall
you were born with
the strength to rise”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey