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g-santiago
social justice. nature. sad boy aesthetics. brown university student. / / life kinda sucks right now, but maybe things will get better.
"But I lost myself, when I lost you. I lost myself, and I lost you too."
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Dec 22, 2015
Dec 22, 2015 at 4:10 AM UTC
Untitled
Despite the fact that I think about your presence constantly you're a ghost. All I have are the memories.
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Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 1:10 AM UTC
Ghost
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
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Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 1:37 AM UTC
XVII (I do not love you...)
Every night before the sun sets I write myself a letter to you. Addressing the person I think I know. Letting him know that love is possible despite the burns ingrained on our skin. Every night after the sun sets I write myself a letter to you. Addressing the person I have come to know. The one that breaks the skin I thought was elastic enough to hold all pain. Every night I fight myself. Begging to move on. Telling myself that the cracks in my skins are battles that have been won. Feeding into the ******** the world feeds my hungry soul. Instead, I know. That somewhere out there you're living a life-- full of cracks that have nothing to do with me. And in the deepest and most honest part of my soul, I know that this is the most ****** up of all.
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Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 1:35 AM UTC
Release
You're looking for love but I'm right here? I promised you I'd share my world so why aren't you here? I want to feel your hands wrapped around my face curling around the edge of the stubble you hate. But instead you're gone. And your hands long to be on another face. Looking for the love I was so eager to give.
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Oct 17, 2015
Oct 17, 2015 at 6:14 PM UTC
Permanence
I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness, if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine
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Oct 17, 2015
Oct 17, 2015 at 5:57 PM UTC
If You Forget Me
Nothing worse than looking at the one you love- only to realize, they do not look back. Instead you find the paint on the wall is a different color-- no longer matching the black they once engrained.
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Oct 16, 2015
Oct 16, 2015 at 1:14 AM UTC
Unrequited
"That there That's not me I go Where I please I walk through walls I float down the Liffey I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here In a little while I'll be gone The moment's already passed Yeah it's gone And I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here Strobe lights and blown speakers Fireworks and hurricanes I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here." - Radiohead, How to Disappear Completely, Kid A (2000).
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Oct 8, 2015
Oct 8, 2015 at 2:48 PM UTC
How To Disappear Completely
I thought, Maybe I only wrote when I was in love. But you see, I still am. It's just now he's gone, And I can't seem to find those beautiful words anymore.
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Oct 8, 2015
Oct 8, 2015 at 2:45 PM UTC
I Don't Write Anymore
A drowsy mind furthers a crack in the pavement. The hope of a static day is suffocated by his breath. He then carries the torpid body, across the bridge.
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Oct 3, 2015
Oct 3, 2015 at 8:51 PM UTC
Nothing Left