A Fire in the Sunset Quotes

“Between your legs
I press my tongue
and watch your
leaves change color”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“Sometimes I touch my skin and wonder if the past is all there ever was.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“The stars grow tired, shrug their shoulders, and fall out of the sky, wearing nothing but robes of comet-white. Is she not one of the stars? She casts off her robes—steps into my room—and composes constellations.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“How I wish to feel your history brush up against the skin of my future.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“This old, tired love
still grows bruises
still hopes for magic
for youth to come and make
the valleys near those twinkling
eves dis-
appear”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“Love, a fragmentary thing
begins mid-sentence
and ends with
the unmovable silence of a
period”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“Your love is thievery-
stealing dreams from out of the
night sky

I have fallen in love many times
many
times
and always with you”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“You only get Time when you don't want
it
And when you do
My God, it'll hurt”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“It's a cruel thing. time
is.
It takes what it
cannot give back”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“I sometimes dream of him. But the dreams have locks. My keys are now blunt too.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“The sidewalk feels like quicksand, feet taking steps but still sinking”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“No longer do I wonder why
the clay of your body attracts
stardust,
hands,
weekends.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“Love, a fragmentary thing—
begins mid-sentence
and ends with
the unmovable silence of a
period.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“Let a second from my clock keep you”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“Our love is a Time Machine,
neither here nor there—
a breaking in the heart
yet to happen”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“Loving you was a miracle. Holding you, a miracle. Everything else wasn't.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems

“Our love has wrinkles as old as the Earth.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems