And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that’s how she is stuck in my mind forever. We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.

Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45

But our love isn’t easy because it’s not meant to be. It requires work and sacrifice and protection. And I wouldn’t want it any other way, not right now, with the morning sun making the curtains glow and Her arms around my neck and the sounds of the street so far away. I’m in it for the long haul, I’m not going away.