love

  • You walked to our lives as if you were a kind of balm designed to cure what never healed. Instead You ripped through us, almost gleeful as we bled into the open air, but healing doesn’t need to wound flesh just to prove it was broken. You damaged us just so you could pretend heal…

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  • Celestial Attachments

    Love is not soft or simple, but distant, burning, gravitational. Something you don’t hold so much as witness. Something that pulls, even when you try to stand still. People try to simplify it, saying love is this or that. But like the planets themselves, they all have unique characteristics, pulls, and orbits. The hardest part…

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  • Anything can feel like poetry if you let it. Take it all in and see the beauty in the simplest moments of your life. Let it wash over you and inspire you to appreciate everything in what seems to be nothing. 1. A lit candle’s smoke swirling in the moonlight 2. Fog pouring off the…

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  • Feel icicles on your eyelashes? Are snowflakes drifting from your words? Certain people, events, and emotions in our lives have a natural coolness that steals your inner spark, leaving you frostbitten. So, if you are shivering, here’s a list of things you can burn to warm up: Bridges to places that no longer serve you.…

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  • Silent Shatters

    Not everything ends with an explosion. Some of the most tragic events of our lives fall softer than a feather landing on the ground; however, the small moments crush our hearts more than the large catastrophes. Here is my list of events that caused my heart to shatter, in no particular order: What shatters your…

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  • We pass people in the hall and say, “How are you?” but we don’t really stop to listen because social protocol says we answer with ‘fine’ or ‘good’ and keep walking. We believe no one really wants to hear your life story. Society has created this environment where we have to literally pay someone to…

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  • When love enters our lives, it is all about timing. Will it last? Is it the right time for me? For them? This timing determines whether our romances are shooting stars or constellations.  We dream about lasting love, but more often than not, it is just a shooting star, streaking across the sky leaving stardust…

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