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Looking mortality straight in the eye is no easy feat. To avoid the exercise, we choose to stay blindfolded, in the dark as to the realities of death and dying. But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror.
“Tell me, at what velocity does joy travel?”
― Counting Descent
― Counting Descent
“The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;”
― Wessex Poems and Other Verses
Alive enough to have strength to die;”
― Wessex Poems and Other Verses
“Do not fall in love with people like me.
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
“do you know what it means for your existence to be defined by someone else’s intentions?”
― Counting Descent
― Counting Descent
“We are charred vessels vestiges of wood & wonder anchors tethered to our bows. It is the irony of a ship burning at sea, surrounded by the very thing that could save us.”
― Counting Descent
― Counting Descent
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