fireworks blooming in autumn you hold me down hands clasped behind my back i am trying to speak sunflowers hang their heads in shame i am trying, i am gasping, i am breathing i am searching for you at the bottom of the well empty petals, broken hands only dreaming
I have spent most of my life thinking about love. I understood early that love could be exciting, extravagant, risky, reckless, heart-racing, heart-breaking, complete, catastrophic, desired and desperate. And I knew that love was like a scent trail and I would follow it. That love could not be a thought-experiment. That love should never count…
Excerpt from Bluets: “I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world. But now you are talking as…
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