“The split is raw, like my skin has been unzipped and my chest is open, my heart climbs up and clambers out on aortic arms, dragging ventricles and veins, squeezed dry, old, blue and used. My lonely lungs will continue to breathe. Blood will make its own way to where it needs to be. I will live without the thumping beat, the throbbing beast, it belongs to you now, for a while at least. Please send it back, half full, with no hard feelings.” RelationshipsLonelinessHeartbreakRaw Book:Rest and Be Thankful Source: Rest and Be Thankful
“I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth.” HeartbreakMissing YouBreaking Up Book:Rest and Be Thankful Source: Rest and Be Thankful
“I look in the mirror and say to myself I look thin like this and then let go of my gut and watch the wobble and say maybe this is why you don't love me any more? I will never know because I will not ask you.” HeartbreakBody ImageDon T Love Anymore Book:Rest and Be Thankful Source: Rest and Be Thankful
“We are cotton buds sucking up the sadness of others, we are saturated, we are saviours. We absorb pain, too thick with mess to notice that everything around us is drying up and growing over. We will wake up one day in a wasteland, surrounded by the crumbling bones of those who loved us and waited for us to love them back. We did not forget but we were too busy being useful. We will crumble next to them but it will take forever, we will sit amongst the piles of dust alone.” PainAloneMessWasteland Book:Rest and Be Thankful Source: Rest and Be Thankful
“I hear the crack as she hits the concrete, the street splits, my head splits, pain rakes open my brain. We are both scattered, splattered on the ground.” PainSuicideScattered Thoughts Book:Rest and Be Thankful Source: Rest and Be Thankful
“I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere.” AloneNothingNowhereHalf Life Book:Rest and Be Thankful Source: Rest and Be Thankful
“We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony.” AgonyTetheredShared Pain Book:Rest and Be Thankful Source: Rest and Be Thankful
“I silently, secretly say prayers over him. I am saying goodbye. Just in case. Sadness, coldness, darkness settles in my heart and dries it up like a stone.” DeathPrayerDarknessSadnessGoodbyeColdness Book:Rest and Be Thankful Source: Rest and Be Thankful