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"All my stories are about being left,all yours about leaving. So we should have known.Should have..."

“All my stories are about being left,

all yours about leaving. So we should have known.

Should have known to leave well enough alone;

we knew, and we didn’t. You said let’s put

our cards on the table, your card

was your body, the table my bed.”

- From Waiting for This Story to End Before I Begin Another by Jan Heller Levi (via hush-syrup)

inelegancies:how did you come to meall your holy vacants at your feet, was i ever jealous and who...

inelegancies:

how did you come to me

all your holy vacants at your feet, was i ever jealous 
and who was it that turned the hazards off so the battery wouldn’t die and we could still listen to the radio until they came for you 

‘you need me either way’ 

a car as a grave, a car as a wedding bed, you wrapping our hands in plantain leaves (for the cuts) and pulling some willow bows down to the push the car further into the dark (from the cops)

‘i’ll always mean less to you than what you mean to me’

for now, for ever, i will only see you walking backwards up the hill and holding your phone up to take a picture of the car with me frowning next to it, and you coming back and holding it out to me in one hand, the backlit white in the not quite sunrise, and you saying ‘see them’ and when i turned around there was nothing 

"… Come with all your shamecome with your swollen heart I’ve never seen anything more beautiful..."

“… Come with all your shame

come with your swollen heart

I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than you.”

- Warsan Shire, from “First Thought After Seeing You Smile” (via fifty-shvdes-of-blvck)

do you have any advice for small, young poets? x

Sometimes it hurts a lot and that’s not always beautiful and they’ll try to tell you that it is and that’s how poetry is made but it’s not and they’re wrong and you’ve got to remember that

in this story, you stay parked two houses down from my heart. always. i leave the doors wide open...

in this story, you stay parked two houses down from my heart. always. i leave the doors wide open and don’t worry about the thieves. the cracks in the windows let the sunlight in. when i beg you please, come in, stay for tea, stay forever, you drive away. always. chasing other things. rabbits, headlights, that one part of the sky that leaks like a tap. 

"You’re going to do something terrible, you’re going to kiss someone else with that mouth. And I..."

“You’re going to do

something terrible,

you’re going to kiss

someone else

with that mouth.

And I will not forgive you,

because I will not know

how to forget

that my skin is mine

but mostly it’s yours.

We were charting

another Atlantis together

on the map of my body,

And I’m taking it back now.

Your knowledge,

my secrets,

my gasps when you touch me

there, and there,

how these new worlds were

for you.

So you’ll kiss another mouth,

and maybe you’ll enjoy it,

maybe it’ll taste like new summer

or wild berries

or something you’ve never

had on your tongue before

but when you come back for me

with your hands wide open

I will not come,

I will not look for you,

and I will not forgive you.”

- Azra.T., “Another Mouth”, directly inspired by Caitlyn Siehl’s “That Mouth”

OMF YOU'RE MOTHER IS SO SMOL YOUR FAMILY IS CUTE

my mama is tiny but trust me she knows how to make everyone feel her presence 

I believe the Greek story you're thinking of is Antigone by Sophocles. Antigone (the main character who is a girl) goes against the Kings orders of not burying her brother, Polyneices, because she wants him to be honored in death. I hope that helped! (:

I’m reading it now! Thank you guys, y’all are seriously so damn helpful. 

"there are things my bodycould never grasp before you.Touch me– I shred. I shed."

“there are things my body

could never grasp before you.

Touch me– 

I shred.

I shed.”

- Salma Deera, xo (via writingwillows)

My boyfriend says he wishes I had a spine, a backbone. He said it to me last night and I just don't understand. What does this mean, lovely?

That’s not a very nice thing to say. To call someone spineless is calling them cowardly and ineffectual and weak. It’s even worse that he didn’t explain what he meant or why he said that. It could be that perhaps you do need to be braver or speak up for yourself more but he didn’t say that. That’s not constructive or helpful it’s just snide. I don’t like your boyfriend.