"I always wanted to know
why it's called 'breaking up'.
Then that awful day came, and
3am showed me what breaks up."

"If there’s anything the
night sky has taught me,
it’s to love yourself no
matter what someone says.
You are the moon. You’ve
always been beautiful
even before anyone
first saw you."

"Thinking of you
happens more
naturally
than breathing."

“True bravery is looking into
the mirror and admitting
the person staring back
isn’t okay. And true
friendship is sitting next to a
broken reflection till the
early hours of the morning.”

"It might seem the only answer
is spilling your heartbeat
across the floor.

But before you do,
close your eyes and feel
every triumphant beat
your heart makes.

Don't tell me we
weren't born to
taste victory."

"You were the most special thing
that never happened to me
and for the imagination
that is far too much to see."

“The valleys of your collarbones
were made for kisses to call their home.

They can be tucked away by gentle pecks
or trickle down from the small of your neck.”

"Before you
it was just
my friend
happiness
and I.

After you
I met
loneliness
with whom
I cry."

"I'm a bad story teller

since all I want to do
is tell you how it ends,

how we grew old together
as lovers and best friends."

"You uprooted
the tombstones
beneath my skin
and planted life
where death
had once been."

"If love
is a gamble,

I'll spend
all my time

trying to win
you over."

"It's ironic

how someone can mean
the universe to you

yet in order to explain
what that means

you'd have to use more words
than there are stars."

“It’s impossible
to move on
if the solution
is replacing
what’s gone.”

“You reminded me of the sea
when I held you close to me;
a pretty shell you are
with a soothing melody. ”

"I can only describe the way you
lit up the darkness inside me
by telling you about the first time
Earth experienced a sunrise."

Of all the things
I could desire

my well being always
ends up second,
right after you.

"It could be a scorching
day of summer,
but in your absence
I'm a heavy winter storm."

"I became yours when
I no longer felt mine.
And I'm afraid
to speak up,
in case
it won't be fine."

"I'm feeling hopeless
with every chance
I'm forced to dismiss.
It's the curse you
gave me
when I feel
it's you
and no one else
that exists."

"The most frightening thought
about you leaving me
in the dark
is that nothing grows
without the sun."

"Forgive me for
having tried to restore
your breath,
but it's all I could do
when you traded
love for death."

"It honestly feels like
you passed away,
leaving me
to mourn
and wonder
why you couldn't
have stayed."

"I'm not one to make a habit
out of addictive substances.
But I had to make an exception
the day you gave me your heart."

"You are the fire
amidst a snow storm;

my only necessity
amongst an
endless white."

"I'm sorry for the
outward expression of
feelings
I can no longer contain,
but you mean more
to me
than language could
ever explain."

"There's a reocurring
scene playing in my head,
where you hear everything
I should have said."

"Jesus Christ
show me a sign.
For your existence
is less apparent
than mine."

"It's like being released back
into the wilderness,
to fend for yourself,
when there's no one there
to feel like home."

"It often takes
a great romantic blunder
to teach us
not everyone
deserves our thunder."

"'Creating distance is key
to letting go anytime soon'
said the naive Earth,
to an imprisoned moon."

"Don't be afraid to let rivers gush from your eyes. It's how you save your heart from drowning."

"Forgetting you
is just as possible
as forgetting to breathe."

"To 'move on' is quite
the misleading phrase,
when movement won't
speed up the days."

"It was after my first love,
that promises of forevers
lost all weight.
Now, all I need,
is for you to simply stay."

"You found your way
into my heart.
And it seems
your only way out,
was by tearing it apart."

"The worst part
about missing you,
is missing the old me
who knew what to be."

"The scariest thoughts
are ones that would completely free us
if they became a reality.
It's the unknown,
and leaving the comfort of what is known,
that makes fearing the leap of faith a normality."

"Make the
best
of today.
Otherwise,
it's time
that slipped
away."

"When I spend time with you,
I pretend our days are counted.
And God forbid the time comes,
but that way I won't ever
have to ask myself to what
we could have amounted."

"It scares me
how much I don't care
about the consequences
of falling for you,

when I know it's skydiving
without a parachute."

"It may be stormy where you are now,
as you sail through rough seas.
And you wish to get back somehow
where there is solid ground and trees.

This is when you look to the coast
at the people who love you most.

They are a beacon, a lighthouse,
guiding you to safety.
And all you must do,
all you must promise them,
is that you will sail on bravely."

"It's little things about you
I remember most,
as if you're the ocean
and these are seashells
I found along the coast."

"At first,
memories of you
were frequent
and many.

But over time
they became
few and far,

and each one
always a reminder
of the scars."

"And I'm still finding
memories of you
tucked away
in everything I do."

"The universe
taught trees
to dance
after the way
your hair danced
on a windy
spring day."

"The universe
planted roses
to remind me
of your cheeks
when you blush."

"The universe
fashioned stars
after the way
your eyes twinkle."

"Temporary separation
is a part of the game.
After all, what is life
without a little pain?
And the sooner we realise this--

the better we will get at
sleeping during lonely nights;

the better we will get at
making it through the fist fights;

and the better we will get
at being alright,

because love isn't just about happiness,
or being perfectly comfortable.
It's about feelings alive in
every humanly way possible.

And if we're not ready for that,
then we're not ready to be loved.

And if we didn't feel broken,
then we didn't deserve to be loved."

"Goodbyes are suffocating--

they are like
promising to never
draw breath again,
when all I want
is to inhale and
feel your existence
inhabit my ribcage

Why?
Because you are
a necessity to me;

like air is for lungs
like oxygen is for veins--
it's an instinct
that I just
can't contain."