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if you are missing him, remember this. remember how cruel he was to you, how every time he drove away the moonlight made your skin look bruised, it made you feel soft. remember that you are not. you might break but you will always heal. think of the nights where he turned away and refused to let you touch him, nights where he moaned your best friends' names into your mouth while you tried to prove how much you loved him, nights where he'd refuse to stop yelling until you put your hands on him. do not think of his hands, or his mouth, or any of the bones in his body. they're not for you. they're not for anybody but himself and you should pity the fact he doesn't know how to love them. you gave your best to him and he crumpled it up until it looked like your worst. don't feel sorry for being emotional, he was a gaping wound in your chest and things like that deserve a good cry. if you're missing him, remember how distant he was, how when you'd sink down on him he wouldn't be looking at your face. how his shoes were always graffitied with the numbers of other girls. how in the middle of a date he asked another girl her name. I know it hurts, it's going to be okay, I promise. remember how unhelpful he was? how little he cared, moving so fast he could never type the 'I?' he blamed you for loving him too much, for being too sad: both things were his fault. I know it doesn't seem like it but I promise there is somebody much, much more lovely, somebody who will treat you like a cloud, and won't throw a fit when you start to rain. you just have to wait.
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Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015 at 4:23 PM UTC
(for when things get bad again)
if you are missing him, remember this. remember how cruel he was to you, how every time he drove away the moonlight made your skin look bruised, it made you feel soft. remember that you are not. you might break but you will always heal. think of the nights where he turned away and refused to let you touch him, nights where he moaned your best friends' names into your mouth while you tried to prove how much you loved him, nights where he'd refuse to stop yelling until you put your hands on him. do not think of his hands, or his mouth, or any of the bones in his body. they're not for you. they're not for anybody but himself and you should pity the fact he doesn't know how to love them. you gave your best to him and he crumpled it up until it looked like your worst. don't feel sorry for being emotional, he was a gaping wound in your chest and things like that deserve a good cry. if you're missing him, remember how distant he was, how when you'd sink down on him he wouldn't be looking at your face. how his shoes were always graffitied with the numbers of other girls. how in the middle of a date he asked another girl her name. I know it hurts, it's going to be okay, I promise. remember how unhelpful he was? how little he cared, moving so fast he could never type the 'I?' he blamed you for loving him too much, for being too sad: both things were his fault. I know it doesn't seem like it but I promise there is somebody much, much more lovely, somebody who will treat you like a cloud, and won't throw a fit when you start to rain. you just have to wait.
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I cry myself to sleep thinking of our last kiss dear god I hope I've never made someone else feel like this  I once thought I found god in the bend of your spine I don't know why but you're the only thing that's ever made me feel alive there's a pack on the counter and it keeps screaming your name  my comfort is empty hallways, I know they feel the same everything I write has your name between the lines the only days I could breathe right were when you were mine sometimes I see your ghost laying in my empty bed for all of this pain, I think there's something to be said the echo of your voice is a reminder I really hate when I hear it I know I better call my shrink up before it's too late depakote, klonopin, ambien, prozac dear god if you're there, tell me where my head's at  do her hands feel better in yours than mine  I'm sorry this is so messy but I have to get it down in time  I'm sick of people on main street asking me what I'm crying about I make a fist and tell them a loves a love until it burns itself out.
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Jan 23, 2015
Jan 23, 2015 at 11:51 AM UTC
(a love's a love until it burns itself out)
there’s people whose dads don’t even know their face but that doesn’t change what i have. that somehow doesn’t lessen the blow. that’s nice you got bit by a shark and all but nobody ever asks me about my scars, the ones you can’t see. i try to take baths to feel whole again but the water hits me like a fist when i drop down too fast, like all the hurt in the world never meant anything. i guess what i’m trying to say is that i love you, i love you, and i remember the night you punched my name into the bedroom wall because i tried too hard to save you, i tried too hard to **** the poison out of something already pure. i guess i was hoping you’d question how i could smell a broken bone from three miles away, how i could find bandages in the blackest dark. i guess i was hoping you might end up saving me, too.
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Dec 22, 2014
Dec 22, 2014 at 4:43 PM UTC
(please?)
lately I've been spinning in circles and counting calendar days like your kisses, you don't know what I've been up to, last week I went to my own funeral. everybody was dressed a hell of a lot like me, all black and black and cobwebs, crying into their hands so hard it seemed like a collective effort to break the world open. you weren't there, I touched everybody's face but you weren't there, it took me only two minutes to figure out where you'd be. her hands were gripped around the back of your neck like a noose, lying in your bed, still covered with a ton of my stray hairs that had fallen out last time you swore you'd try to be gentle. when she said your name i imploded in on myself like a chemical war, all the bones in my body trying to get out. did you tell her you loved her, too? I took some of my stray hair and stuck it to your back, if she took as much time on you as I did she'll find it soon enough, and I hope she does. I hope she breaks you. I hope you wake up and she's gone so that you know what hurt tastes like. I hope you lose her as quickly as I lost you, and you can't drag yourself out of all the rot she leaves behind on your bedroom floor. I hope she doesn't go to your funeral, because I sure as hell am not.
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 3:29 PM UTC
(you don't deserve her)
evil is a little boy in a black hood trying to be good. do you ever think about how many tears the mother of the devil has cried? not all the planets in our known solar system could fathom that kind of treason. being home alone at night is my achilles heel. perhaps we were meant to splinter like this, he thought when he took his last breath. perhaps we were made for this, and nothing else. when he says he loves me, i want to dip him in chocolate. when he says he's leaving anyway, my eyes burn like they've been soaked in bleach. come, baby, let me straighten your spine, let me read to you the novels of your fingertips. some things, i guess, are doomed from the start. some countries don't have words for 'all right.' some people never stop bleeding.
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 4:19 PM UTC
(some people never stop bleeding)
dear girl who kissed the boy i love: i hope you found the spot that makes him laugh, i hope you found god in his ******* hands
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 4:38 PM UTC
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