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; (Semicolon) ; by X.Q.
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“All you ever do is leave And all I want to do is to tell you to stay. Please, stay.”
x q, ;
“One day, I might perhaps become something so small and insignificant to you that you only think of me as often as you think of the little particles of dust that you can see floating around the window in the late afternoon sun. If I'm lucky enough, you'll think of me as often as never thinking of me again at all.”
x q, Semicolon
“Unexpectedly falling in love is the best way to fall, isn't it?”
x q, ;
“There are no words for some things. They just are whatever they are, and most of the time they go without saying. Often times we try to attach a word to something, a name, some sort of a definition. We sort of strip the essence of that thing in the process; we tie it down and restrict it from being something else because we have defined it as one particular thing. Sometimes, something is everything and nothing at the same time.”
x q, ;
“Remnants of you will perhaps always remain deeply rooted in places even I cannot reach”
xq, Semicolon
“I don't know if I love you too much or not enough I don't know if I love you the way the sky loves the stars or like moon loves the sun or the earth loves the sea or like bees love honey But I do know that I love you that much is for certain and it's the only thing I know”
x q, ;
“I watched my best friend fall in love with the same girl a million times in the same minute.  She had vivid eyes, a warm smile, and a streak of purple in her hair.  They were too drunk to notice I was watching; I was too sober to not realize what was happening.  Someone kept cutting off the oxygen in the room every time their faces got close.  But I knew if it were for just a few more inches, they would have kissed.  I also knew that it was because of the fact that she had a boyfriend that they didn't.  Even I could feel his heart racing as she licked off the birthday cake icing off his right cheek.  I saw his eyes light up; it was much more than the effects of inebriation.  There was suddenly a different kind of gravity present in the room.  And I then I realized: The same forces that bring two people together are the same ones that pull them apart.  But I knew from the way he looked at her.  I knew what he felt.  I knew how much she meant to him.  And in that moment, I finally understood.  Because that's the exact same way I look at you.  (I have learned to see gravity; it is the colour of your skin.)”
xq, Semicolon
“I often dream that we first met in a dream before we met outside of it”
x q, ;
“There are no words for some things. They just are whatever they are, and most of the time they go without saying. Often times we try to attach a word to something, a name, some sort of a definition. We sort of strip the essence of that thing in the process; we tie it down and restrict it from being something else because we have defined it as one particular thing. Sometimes, something is everything and nothing at the same time. But at any given point, it is still something.  There is no real word for the way I feel for you. I could never express it in words. But every now and then, I'll try.”
xq, Semicolon
“If your father asks to know  my personal qualifications  I will tell him that if your smile was water  I would dig a well for miles  into the earth, with my bare hands  and that if your laughter were music,  I strive to be your conductor and that if your happiness were a movie  I would spend my entire life working  to become an award winning director  that if your sadness were a global tragedy  I would devise ways to come up with a solution  worth the merit of the Nobel Peace Prize  And if still, your father is unsatisfied  I will tell him that I love you  and that I know nothing else ”
xq, Semicolon
“All you do is leave when all I ever want is for you to just stay”
x q, ;
“I scribbled her name on surfaces everywhere on my skin and on sheets of paper but mostly on napkins hoping every time that when I look up she would be there”
x q, ;
“We are all insane at some point in our lives”
xq, Semicolon
“I spend some nights lying awake and feeling for my ribs to try and account for the missing one she was made from”
x q, ;
“Unexpectedly falling in love  is the best way  to fall, isn't it?”
xq, Semicolon
“Some say that the closest friend we will ever have is our own shadow. But even our shadows leave us when we are surrounded in darkness. I promise I will be better than your shadow; I will not leave you when you need to roam in the dark.”
xq, Semicolon
“Forever cherish the memories, dear, because they will not leave you Sometimes, fires burn”
xq, Semicolon
“You are beautiful,
despite what you think,
despite what they say.
It is time you believed it.”
xq, Semicolon
“We are two continents  sitting in the same room we perhaps look to be  an arm's length apart but we both know  that there is much more  distance between us now”
xq, Semicolon
“Perhaps love, in the same way, is painful for a reason”
xq, Semicolon
“And I wonder when the dreamer in you first took shape the same way I always wonder when the dreamer in me first dreamt you”
xq, Semicolon
“Dreams stay asleep -that is their nature. We wake and leave them in desperate hopes to”
xq, Semicolon
“The same forces that bring two people together are the same ones that pull them apart.”
xq, Semicolon
“Unexpectedly
falling in love 
is the best way 
to fall, isn't it?”
xq, Semicolon
“I'm sorry"
I will say
I'm sorry
for loving you
the only way
I know how”
xq, Semicolon
“Spring   We found spring in winter  in a parking lot in the suburb  and later that night we half-slept  half listened, and half spoke  but somehow we both felt whole  In that moment, I could feel  a bed of flowers blooming  from within my chest  And in a state of complete renewal  of all faiths restored and composures regained  I swear I never breathed sweeter air ”
xq, Semicolon