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“it often happens that we treat pain as if it were the only real thing, or at least the most real thing. when it comes around, everything before it, around it, and perhaps in front of it, tends to seem fleeting, delusional.”

“yet how can i explain that every time i put a pin in the balloon of it, the balloon seems to swell back up as soon as I turn away from it?”

“i have been trying to place myself in a land of great sunshine, and abandon my will therewith”

“do not tell lies and do not do things you hate, for all things are manifest in the sight of heaven”

“enlightenment can be the ultimate disappointment”
“ for just because one lives blue does not mean one wants to spend one’s life in a world made of it”

“i have been trying for some time now to find dignity in my loneliness. i am finding this hard to do”

love getting back into poetry. was so obsessed with it in high school but haven’t read any sense. i appreciate how it resonates more as an adult and i no longer feel like an emo middle school poser trying to read it (even tho deep down i still am)