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griselda-de-anda
griselda-de-anda
a piece of silly laughter next to a stab of pain
dating a writer is like guessing the weather. you think you know what you'll get, but you never do. you never know because she'll create a hero from your weaknesses and she'll write a great character, from every last flaw. she'll create a thousand plots   from your worst nightmares. she'll take every last thing you hate and create something you'll love. she'll turn your anger into confessions of adoration, and she'll make you, everything you're not. but worst of all, she'll leave you wondering- is it you she's in love with, or things she's created from you? but here's the beauty of it: if you date a writer, you'll never die.
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Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015 at 2:04 AM UTC
dating a writer
This one goes to the real poets. To those who decide to carry the world on their own. To those who carry hell in their head and a graveyard of lost love stories in their heart To the brave ones who fight darkness with darkness. Tho those who the only answer they seek from a god is if there's eternal life for their loved ones, because they know there's no space for them in that paradise. To those who know that suffering is the most humane feeling there is. To those who loved and hated the wrong person. This goes to Lorca isolated, hiding in a closet in New York. To Unamuno craving to believe in something impossible. To Quiroga drinking the poison of his sorrow at a hospital. To Becquer and Espino for dying so young. To Neruda for cheating on himself so many times. To Machados' lost spirit. To Marquez and his melancholic ****** To Poe's tormented soul and his raven. To Shakespeare and his Juliet. To Dante and his story of woe. This goes for the only beings who can live with a hell inside of them, and still manage to write heavenly things for those in need to read. This one's for us.
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Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015 at 2:03 AM UTC
This One Is For Us
if you fall in love, remember that you are falling and that the fall will not last forever. you can just as easily fall out of love, or wake up to someone who is no longer falling. some people trip into love accidentally stumbling into something bigger than they expected and while the jolt was momentarily unpleasant, they don't mind the fall. there are a few who will count with you but will not jump with you, no matter what they say because they are too afraid and leave you to fall on your own, to hit the ground already broken. a select few hit the ground running flipping mid-air, somersaulting preparing themselves for the land and launching themselves into the air once again, unafraid. daredevils. there are those who look before they leap to measure, calculate, check and double check and leap once they feel safe and ready. they are the ones who so rarely fall, but do so with all faith. and then there are the ones who already fell and went and hurt themselves and will still leap into the abyss, free and bound knowing that they will land paralyzed and will re-learn how to love. if you fall in love, remember that you are falling and that the fall will not last forever. but also remember to enjoy the fall, because like free falling, love is dangerous but beautiful.
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Jul 16, 2015
Jul 16, 2015 at 1:09 AM UTC
free fall
*You can't force a feeling. Your pen will not be fooled. Ink dries in mockery Of your obvious lies Leaving an imprint Like the ghost of a shadow Of someone you wish you were*
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Jun 9, 2015
Jun 9, 2015 at 1:33 AM UTC
Forced
Write me a book, Call it: "All the Ways I Was Unable to Love You." List the reasons why it was all my fault Tell them about the impossible pedestal you placed me on Describe the way my hands shook trying to put your pieces back together, and how I no longer knew whose hands were bleeding I never wanted to change you, I just wanted to be enough to fill your emptiness But the the void became to deafening, and with your brokenness suffocating me, I used my last breath to say "Im sorry." -I was always sorry for your mistakes
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May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 1:46 AM UTC
All the Ways I Was Unable to Love You
Someday, when you'll ask me "how much do you love me?", In answer, I will not spread my arms wide. I will rather wrap them around you tight, and will never let you go.
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May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 at 1:37 AM UTC
I will rather.
In that moment Between wake and sleep, Where the mind slips In between the sheets, I find you there Next to me. My gentle hug, My warm body, My perfect love, My ecstasy.
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Apr 24, 2015
Apr 24, 2015 at 2:05 PM UTC
Between the sheets