I always wanted a love that would bring me to my knees and boy, does it and boy, do you. And God, do you.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
1.
How quickly it happened, your entrance and departure. I whispered, with a breath that won’t reach you, come back home.
2.
I never imagined what she would look like. No, I could never see it. But I knew she would exist.
3.
I thought you knew my body wasn’t a hobby. To be picked up and enjoyed at your leisure. Entertainment to cure boredom.
4.
Your name speaks like love on my tongue
and beauty on my lips. -לָבִיא
5.
For you to experience love.
That is why you were created.
6.
I don’t know what’s better.
Falling asleep in your arms or
You as my morning view.
7.
I love you in ways I can’t explain, In timeframes I don’t understand and in moments that don’t make sense.
8.
You left your fingerprints on my heart and branded the few words you spoke, on my soul.
9.
These tears are too old to be this fresh.
10.
Lay with me as I whisper my current secrets and yell my past shame.
11.
I hail from a long line of women who have endured the most.
There is strength in this blood.
12.
We have all loved someone who was bad for us. Burned us with scorching hot fires filled with lies and disrespect. Continued to love them even after we shouldn’t. Not because it was the best love we treasure that love - It taught you how limitless love is. How limitless your love is.
13.
Quiet now
They don’t understand
The words you speak
The weight they carry
The burden to hold it all in
The shame it brings
When spoken
They say nothing
14.
A fix for your loneliness, An ointment to soothe the sting. When what you really needed were stitches.
15.
Speak slow for they’ll miss a word or possibly the whole passage. Your tongue laid at their feet.
16.
A pawn can turn into a Queen when left in the hands of the Master.
17.
Turn my own heart to thread and knit you back together.
18.
Believe that first feeling.
19.
You haven’t changed and I’ve gotten worse.
20.
Too much like my mother. Not enough like my father.
21.
You should go. (Words that never left her lips).
22.
I will carry you in my heart for the rest of my life until our spirits meet again.
23.
A fire built to keep me warm only to burn my world down.
24.
Late night conversations
about everything and nothing -
then we’d greet the sun with our goodbyes
25.
There you were,
the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.
How does it feel to be so close to love
and never know it?
26.
A space that feels like home, a vacation,
and a stomach full of butterflies.
- israelievitch
27.
It won’t be the death of my father that crushes me but the fact his life was taken from him long before.
28.
People want to love you. Even as you are. Unhealed.
29.
People can still change for the better… Even now. Give them a chance. Extend grace, even when they fall, which they will… several times.
