Hoping that I can train them not to leave I did not know it was possible to save some things for myself.” If I could have I would have given it all away with the rest of me. – Warsan Shire, “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love” I think I knew you before I knew my own name. I can’t breathe and I can’t move and I am stuck Since I was a kid and it always ends the same. What you want and I’m picking pieces of glassįrom your throat. If you say it pretty? You’re saying you don’t know Our love is hitchhiking across the California desertĪnd no one is slowing down. – Aman Batra, “When The Timing Isn’t Right, Neither Is The Man” Every unspoken part of you sang symphonies when we touched and I found myself wanting to be a musician all over again.” I imagine your lashes wrote anthologies every time they kissed your cheeks maybe that’s why I heard a century of voices in your quiet. I imagine they looked the same when you were convinced of your own brokenness. “See, the 17 year old girl in me fell in love with your silent eyes. “You just need to know this is the first time I’ve ever done this without looking for an exit row.Īnd I’m pretty sure my seat can’t float but I’ve already fallen from the sky for you,Īlready told my mother you curse like a sailor and you love like the war is finally over and you have just come home and you are running down the dock in the harbor and you’re screaming my name. – Edwin Bodney, “When a Boy Tells You He Loves You” He never meant a single word of any of it.
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Not wanting you to decrease him into the truth,ĭo not crack your face into the fullest crescent moon at the tapered bottom of a blackened sky. Only to become silent like a folded sheet of tissue paper “When a boy tells you he loves you for the first time – Kristina Haynes, “The Year of Our Disbelief” Can recite the periodic table from memory but still can’t quite believe it when they say that they love us, too. We are so young to hate everything so much. My sister compares her body to a junkyard and I find bits of scrap metal beneath her bed from boys who bury promises in her belly. “He texts me about all the fun he’s having but I’m the first person he tells about a paper cut.
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“You cracked hourglass, with sand spilling from behind your ribs: you wasted my time.” – Katelin Wagner, “Disappearing Acts (after Miles Hodges)” No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closeīecause it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.” “They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsĪnd everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform. I see myself forgotten like those old anchors.”
Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels I love you still among these cold things. Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I’ve put together a list with quotes from some of my favorite poets, and let me tell you, *feels* will be felt. Like, if I could wake up and eat poetry for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I probably would.