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promise me
"how much do you love me?"
"i love you more than the stars,
more than the sand, more than the
water of a man
quenched, parched from desert storms
drenched in the sweat of
one thousand egyptian slaves—
i'm a slave to your heart, and i love you
more than i love dreams and
watching falling leaves on a fall evening,
we're a team and i love you more
than i love my mother,
i love you more than any other i had
ever waited for, that's how much
i love you."
"how much do you love me?"
"i love you more than life itself,
of course,
i love you like the sun loves its planets,
or how the planets follow the sun
wherever she goes.
i love you more than
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decisions left unmade
all i find
is that black wall
when i search
the threads
of futures
and
of fates
.
six words
and he could sit
for years
for a decade
and a day
and where would my
own world go
with his
locked away
.
i have not yet learned
to make my bread
haven’t tucked my own
heart in at night
and promised:
if you need me
i’ll be here
i haven’t walked a mile
in my own shoes
and seen the light
of understanding
haven’t held my
ragged hands
and said:
now your gait
makes sense
to me
.
there is black tar
in my blood stream
.
i took those barbs
into my lungs
and learned
to hate the way
my toes dragged
learned
to believe
a
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a list of things colleges don't want to know
1. i have a cactus named atticus that i bought
on the day i thought i was going to die,
and i never forget to water it, not
even when i forget how it feels
to breathe without my lungs rebelling
against my brain.
2. sometimes talking feels like walking on gravel
in a Georgian summer heat.
i try to keep talking anyway,
and hope that eventually
my voice will lose its softness and grow calluses.
3. once, a man whistled at me
outside of a grocery store from
the safety of his car.
four years later, i still haven’t stopped looking
over my shoulder.
4. i drive too fast and i take turns too sharply
and i never put enough sugar
in my tea
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That's turning it around. The saying is, "It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." But an epiphany seems to be a case of "lost, then loved".
That's what happens when you exceed the speed of light. Clocks run backward.
That's what happens when you exceed the speed of light. Clocks run backward.