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I Don't Remember...I don't remember, any more, / The exact shape of your hands / As I held them in mine,

@ashe-l-bennett31

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Copper Cough Charm_~a jump-rope chant~_ / Black silk handkerchief, / what ya’ gonna’ hide?

@William-A-Gibson29

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Don't SettleLove, the real kind, is never simple. / It is the one thing that makes life worth it in the end, / and something that wonderful and sought-after is never going to be easy to get.

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Tonight I Can WriteTonight I can write the saddest lines. / Write, for example, 'The night is starry / and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

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You FadeYou fade... / Like a bruise. / Like the ones your mouth left on my neck and shoulders with its lustful pressure.

@kathryn-dixon39

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For The Foxesdon't feel sorry for me. / I am a competent, / satisfied human being.

Charles Bukowski64

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LustHer passion burns bright / her fire catches me / igniting my soul

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Supposesuppose / Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head. / young death sits in a café

E. E. Cummings26

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This is how girls with anxiety loveWe're almost touching. / we were walking side by side, / you're talking about cabs in your hometown.

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Dostoevskyagainst the wall, the firing squad ready. / then he got a reprieve. / suppose they had shot Dostoevsky?

Charles Bukowski32

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GoodnightGoodnight, the fire burns brightly / Goodnight, you kiss my forehead lightly / Almost paternally now

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Saddest PoemI can write the saddest poem of all tonight. / Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, / and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

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The theory of letting goDear J, / I may be at a loss for words half the time, and the other half I might have too much to say, but I can almost always say this; I love you. I have felt fear and I have felt bravery and I have felt loss. I can look pictures of us and I can recall everything we did that day. I can listen to videos of you and I can tell what you felt. And I know that you didn't think I was paying attention, but I knew how you looked when you thought something was unfair. And I knew the look in your eyes when you saw the light just right in a sunset and you knew that nothing could ever be recreated quite like that. I felt the same way about you. / Wherever you are, know that loving someone isn't a matter of feeling something or not feeling something. It's a matter of knowing what you're feeling and when you need to let go.

@claire-elizabeth9

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Please?Can I come to you as I am, / in secret- / brimming with the need to be held?

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~ Whom the Son Sets Free ~*Jesus, please set my bound heart free / Let not this world my prison be / Where fear and shame would pull me down

@alyssa-underwood28

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I'm In Loveshe's young, she said, / but look at me, / I have pretty ankles,

Charles Bukowski40

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Let Me Take YouIn the darkest of nights / Your body pressed against the wall / Hands held high above

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AdventureA fairy poked my little nose / And gave me a sense of adventure / And now every time that I'm held back

@ashley-somebody4

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OpiaOpia. Noun. The ambiguous intensity of looking into someone's eyes, which can fell simultaneously invasive and vulnerable. / As you lie in my arms, watching the television, you don't notice that my undivided attention is focused on you. Something I've been dreaming of for weeks, and it's finally come true. Even better, from your angle, you can't see me staring into your eyes, so I don't feel the nervous compulsion to turn away. Whether directly or not, I could drink in your eyes with mine, for hours, and they would be among the best hours of my life. / Then there's the other hand, held tightly by trepidation. I love the prospect of your eyes staring into mine, but it's not without its fears. I'm afraid you'll see all the pain and fears that I've spent the past seven years working to overcome. I'm afraid you'll see all the insecurity and doubts I have about myself. I'm afraid you'll see all the words that I long to whisper in your ear, but can't, because I'm terrified of scaring you away. I'm afraid you won't like the fact that, behind these eyes lies only pictures and thoughts of you. But most of all, I'm afraid that, unlike me, who loves every detail, and lives for moments like these, you won't love the things you see. I long for the day when you stare happily into my eyes, but I'm frightened that you won't enjoy the secrets they reveal.

@andrew-switzer3

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ButterflyFingers sinking deep / below your surface; / seeping into your *****

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Selflove and empowermentI'm not perfect, / I know I'll never be. / I still strive for perfection,

@pernille-augustson27

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Happiness,can not be found in the flesh / For as warm it may be / As soft to your fingers it is

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I couldn't write silenceWe cannot write silence. / The beats. / The pause.

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Physical physicsScience says that there's a mathematical equation that explains everything in life. / But I say that not even physics bears an explanation for...the guidelines of attraction. / Our primal reactions are multiplied in...the highlights of passion.

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Break my Chains~ / *Hold my hand and persuade the way / tell me all you want to say

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