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Dig into my chest like it’s bare soil—make it a grave, not for mourning, but for planting. Let my heart be buried like a seed, not as a casualty. **** out what once wrapped itself around me like vines of bitterness, strangling my better nature. And if love is to grow, let it bloom where my brokenness once lived. To those who fall in love, only to fall harder out of it—do not call yourselves foolish. Rising from that grave, petals torn but still reaching for the sun, aren’t you the rose that dared the dirt? Beautiful in _defiance_, bruised __but not defeated__. Each morning, the sun rises like it’s trying to convince me it’s worth beginning again. Beneath that light, my thoughts crash like waves against the cliffs of a heart too mountainous to climb. I keep counting stars like uncashed wishes, dreams I tuck into the corners of silence. Love plays its hand close to the chest— a secret it folds into itself, waiting to be revealed when the moment is just right. But I’ll never know enough. Maybe I wasn’t meant to. But I have loved—_truly, painfully, and almost beautifully_. And that should count for something, by the sum of this heart that still beats, and still believes, but also still breaks. So here I am, with these cards on the table. No bluff left in me. Even a faithful lover would cry, 'God, are you listening; deal me a better hand. Not one free of pain, but one I can hold with both hands steady. One that doesn’t slip through the cracks I’ve tried so hard to mend. But one I can grip with love, and not lose again.' __But oh, how you'll weep— not for what’s been lost, but for what you're scared to lose.__
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Aug 2, 2025
Aug 2, 2025 at 5:20 AM UTC
To Love, and Be Dealt Again
Dig into my chest like it’s bare soil—make it a grave, not for mourning, but for planting. Let my heart be buried like a seed, not as a casualty. **** out what once wrapped itself around me like vines of bitterness, strangling my better nature. And if love is to grow, let it bloom where my brokenness once lived. To those who fall in love, only to fall harder out of it—do not call yourselves foolish. Rising from that grave, petals torn but still reaching for the sun, aren’t you the rose that dared the dirt? Beautiful in _defiance_, bruised __but not defeated__. Each morning, the sun rises like it’s trying to convince me it’s worth beginning again. Beneath that light, my thoughts crash like waves against the cliffs of a heart too mountainous to climb. I keep counting stars like uncashed wishes, dreams I tuck into the corners of silence. Love plays its hand close to the chest— a secret it folds into itself, waiting to be revealed when the moment is just right. But I’ll never know enough. Maybe I wasn’t meant to. But I have loved—_truly, painfully, and almost beautifully_. And that should count for something, by the sum of this heart that still beats, and still believes, but also still breaks. So here I am, with these cards on the table. No bluff left in me. Even a faithful lover would cry, 'God, are you listening; deal me a better hand. Not one free of pain, but one I can hold with both hands steady. One that doesn’t slip through the cracks I’ve tried so hard to mend. But one I can grip with love, and not lose again.' __But oh, how you'll weep— not for what’s been lost, but for what you're scared to lose.__
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