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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.

Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

This is my body. It is no one's but mine.

We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.

How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?

They're telling you to blend in,
like you've never seen how a blender works,
like they think you've never seen the mess from the blade.

Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.

I know now it doesn't matter how well I say grace
if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eat

I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

Someday we will dare
to trade good for true

We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.

But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.

I like imagining your body is Saturn,
my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.

When 28,000 buildings fall do you know how many walls are no longer there?

My mother says it is totally fine
if I blow off steam
as long as I speak in an octave
my kindness can still reach.

I've written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.

My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.

Some days my heart beats so fast
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad track
and my breath is a train I just can't catch.

She's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing

And I am wrong more often than I am writing. And even then, I am often wrong.

You keep worrying you're taking up too much space. I wish you'd let yourself be the milky way.

Everyone's chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.

Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it's the place where the music comes through.

My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don't care that they are naked.
There is something burning in there.

This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

If you're handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.

I have always been comfortable weathering the storm.
I'd like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.

I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday
And tonight I'll only borrow pieces of who I am today
To carry with me to tomorrow

I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.

I started talking to the stars in the sky instead. I said, "Tell me about the big bang." The stars said, "It hurts to become.

If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.

Hey, are you a boy or a - never mind, can I have a push on the swing? And some day, y'all, when we grow up, it's all gonna be that simple.

You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

My fingertips miss her so much.

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.

We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.

Every lover is a storm chaser.
Every good heart has lost its roof.

Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.

You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime

You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.

Commit to loving yourself completely. It's the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.

When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.

Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.

Our hearts beat so loud the neighbours think we're fucking when I'm just trying to find the nerve to touch your face.

You are a mystery I promise I will never try to solve.

I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.

Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.

We were the letters sent to the wrong address,
but opened anyway.

What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.

The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

And feelings were always smarter things than thoughts

Say this is what the pain made of you:
an open, open, open road,
an avalanche of feel it all.

Listen, I know you run your mouth so your mind can rest.

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

I wish for a heart you can see straight through, for a voice that glows in the dark, and a few really good friends to say, That's the way to go.

Our insanity is not that we see people who aren't there. It's that we ignore the ones who are.

To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.

We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,
but you still have to call it a birthday.

I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.

It is incredible what kind of mess I can make
with a nine-hour drive and an unanswered text.

This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn't have to.

I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.

Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground.

I am whoever I am when I am it.

Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say 'please, come back', I feel like I'm trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack.

I said to the the sun
'Tell me about the big bang'
The sun said
'It hurts to become

We have all fought for our lives
more than we know,
survived our own questions.

I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers ... "
I never thought for a second
we wouldn't save the people

If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

You have to understand when it hurt to love her, it hurt the way the light hurts your eyes in the middle of the night, but I had to see.

Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.

The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that's why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.