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

Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?

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

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

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.

I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.