"If I never stop to write about you,it’s probably a good thing.I am prone to romanticizing my own..."

“If I never stop to write about you,

it’s probably a good thing.

I am prone to romanticizing my own hurts,

making them palatable.

I am prone to making lessons of lovers,

mythology of heartache.

Sometimes, I am not half as kind on paper

as I was against your skin–

you do not want to be made into poetry.

You’d rather be put to memory

than have me put you in ink.”

- to the ones who hoped I’d write about them, by Ashe Vernon