“Do you like me?”
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind words,
and I did not cry,
I did not beg,
but blackness filled my ears,
blackness lunged in my heart,
and something that had been good,
a sort of kindly oxygen,
turned into a gas oven.”
―
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us
and clogged my throat.
It slaughtered my trust.
It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.
We exchanged blind words,
and I did not cry,
I did not beg,
but blackness filled my ears,
blackness lunged in my heart,
and something that had been good,
a sort of kindly oxygen,
turned into a gas oven.”
―
“The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.”
―
―
“Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.”
― The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
― The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
―
―
“(A)t least simulated vulnerability is bearable/for those/who cannot/withstand unreasonable tenderness.”
― Zirconia
― Zirconia
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