"Find someone who
will hang messages
detailing your beauty
from the stars,

and form constellations
greater than any
one of your scars."

"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."

"If love
is a gamble,

I'll spend
all my time

trying to win
you over."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"We're at scene six
where you and I
act like it never
meant anything,

and scene seven
will see us teaching
our hearts how to
understand fiction."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Lovers dismantle us;
     they pull
     the threads
     of our soul,
     taking apart
     our existence
     and exploring
     us whole.

Lovers wreck us;
     they know
     how to assemble
     us once more,
     but walk away
     and leave us
     in pieces
     on the floor.

'Love you'
     they swore."

"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."

"It is not our place
to mend someone's
shattered heart

but rather,

run our fingers
down every last
fracture and love
like it never
shattered at all."

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

After you
I met
loneliness
with whom
I cry."

"The trouble is--

hearts don't lie,
but minds do

and I don't know
which one I spoke to."

"Thinking of you
happens more
naturally
than breathing."

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

"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."

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

"I know what I feel
and I know it's real.
You are one in a million
a girl undeniably surreal."

"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."

“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.”

"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 were the kind
of girl that brought
me the moon
every night,
and set the stars
in my chest alight.

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

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

"Our relations
with those
around us are
like trees;

We can water them,
or let them dry out.

Just remember
our lungs
needs forests
to breathe."

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

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

Fall for him the way shooting stars
fall for the earth,

and darling,

I promise he'll catch you
knowing all that you're worth.

It's 3am
and I'm awake
without you.

Even nightmares
are more comforting
than this.

"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."

"Letting go of you
was like setting fire
to all of me."

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

"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."

I knew I loved you
not by the moments
we spent together,
but by the moments
away from you
that seemed like forever.

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

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

"You are the fire
amidst a snow storm;

my only necessity
amongst an
endless white."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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