Unstableflames

“I’m not too gone to be healed, am I? / I’m not too gone am I?”

— Alice Notley, from In the Pines

Amy Lowell, from A dome of many-coloured glass; “The Fruit Garden Path”

[Text ID: “My eyes aches with the weight of unshed tears, / You are my home, do you not understand?”]

For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.

thanks pinterest

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “What I couldn’t explain via text”

[Text ID: “I still don’t know how / to love someone / without swallowing them.”]

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

— George R. R. Martin

love elizabeth s.

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “The first line is the deepest”