February 2012
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stay
I’ve abandoned many things in life (plans, hopes, projects, resolutions) without a glance back, nary an ounce of regret. You knew that; I made sure you did. So why were you so surprised when I abandoned you?
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lovely, still
you gave up your last secret but i’m still here and you are lovely, still.
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human nature
It’s not a fucked up sleeping pattern that I have, it’s more of what I lack. Falling asleep is a lot harder without the warmth of another person next to you.
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chasing pavements
Darling, if you feel me pulling away, please remind me of the good times we have had. Tell me again the story of that one afternoon when I couldn’t stop staring at you. Tell me again how happy I looked.
Darling, if you feel me falling into another’s arms, do not cling on harder. Let me go, and I promise that I will return.
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faith in my moon
Full moons remind me of the first night I spent with her. I remember how my curtains were only just half open, yet wide enough to allow a few rays of moonlight through. They touched gently upon the curve of her lower back and bleached her skin white.
I could have sworn she was flawless, carved from marble.
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brown eyed girl
I was tired, the kind that sinks into your bones and make you want to sleep for hours. But she was with me, and any time I spend away from her just seems like time wasted. I wanted to commit her features into my brain, maybe even burn them into my irises. Did you know every time you blink, your eyelids cleanses your eyes? So maybe burning her image into my corneas wouldn’t be so bad. I...
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if you were the sun, then i’ll be your moon, i would orbit ‘round on the track of your gravity.
if you were for me, then i’ll be your fool, i’ll be your plus one for wedding dinners and for life.
but you are my sun, and you are my one, so i will keep these promises because i love you.
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right now
right now i am missing your freckled cheeks long limbs and tousled hair from my fingers running through.
right now i am wishing for your curled form next to mine your silhouette illuminated by candles.
right now i am painting your ribs with the imaginary strokes of my fingers dipping between bones and grooves.
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rain
her kisses remind me of tropical drizzle: warm and comforting.
January 2012
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mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix
When summer ends, do not be sad. I will be leaving in thirty days, but I promise I will write. I will write to you, the metal tip of my pen betraying the depth of my emotions as it carves into pastel colored paper. I will replay the words in my head, mentally hitting backspace until each sentence deserves to be immortalized with ink. I will write to you the words I cannot say to your face....
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shut your eyes
darling, did you hear about the solar flare? but frankly (who is frank anyway?) the world can burn for all i care i just want to melt with you we can put on amy winehouse and dim the lights too maybe share a cigar and a scotch of course i’d cough from every sear of burned tobacco to my esophagus i’m not a smoker, you see and you would laugh and say that there’s no finer day than...
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“What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a...”
– It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
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lovedrunk
you were a little drunk and a little giggly and i was in love.
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trust issues
i am tired but i cannot sleep the seeds of doubt have been planted in my stomach they bloom and curl around my rib cage my vertebrae is not strong enough for this apparent lack of trust.
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my saving grace
Sometimes in the dead of the night, the stillness of the air threatens to swallow me whole. I feel terrified of things which I should not be. I lie in the dark, holding on to the woman who says she loves me and I’m dropping doubts with every breath I take. I finally know what I am afraid of- the lie of happily-ever-afters, and the silence after expectations fall through.
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sleeping with ghosts
tonight i will fall asleep with the ghost of you. love, you have been gone for more than a year now sometimes i still resent the angels that led you in i like to think that you visit me on cold nights like this where your scent falls around me like a blanket and the echoes of your laughter vibrates this stale air that now moves only with every plume of exhaled smoke that escapes from my chapped...
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fauxhawkwithflow replied to your photoset
WOOOOOOOO
You jelly? I might just have found the most perfect assam laksa in the world.
timetobegin replied to your photoset
Those egg rolls look perfect…
They are a type of spring rolls called “popiah”. At least, that’s what we call them on this side of the world. They’re fantastic.
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three
I’ve read pages upon pages of prose dedicated to love and I ask myself, Why is it that immortalized love always ends in tragedy? I grew up believing that the greatest love stories are fleeting. Perhaps it has taught me to appreciate what I have. But, I would be the first to admit that I have forgotten this once or twice.
This past weekend reminded me of the splendor that comes with young...
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anatomy
i fell in love with the slow swell of her hips and the tracks of her ribs.
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dreaming of you
i was dreaming of you lovely you and me in a lilac room adorned with english wallpaper and innocent lace
i was dreaming of you your skin lit pink from the inside your lips bruised with imprints from my very own
i was dreaming of you but it is not night and i am not sleeping and you are not mine.
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weather patterns
The voices in my head are screaming “kiss her, kiss her” but my nerves are shot and my muscles are locked in place i think my desire for her is evaporating by the second but much like liquid they gather into a cloud above us and oh thunderstorms and hurricanes would visit us when my lips finally collide with hers in a flash of lightning.
Quite possibly inspired by...
December 2011
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And with your head tilted back, the flesh of your skinny neck clings to the ridges in your esophogas, and I think of all the unromantic ways to tell you I want to cling to you like that, in the dark, my flesh in between the railroad ties of your spine, my fingers spread across all the puckers in your skin, my battered lungs playing trampoline against the tumbling of my...
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b-side
i’ve come to realize the sky in the city does not truly get dark. there seems to be an undercurrent of light that never fades away. just like how you are the b-side to every thought that i will have.
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“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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the meaning of acceptance
i heard you whisper but i couldn’t make out the words i’ve got cheap vodka running through my veins and the feel of your fingertips running electric through my skin or maybe it’s just sparks emitting from my pores i can’t tell anymore because i think you’ve shattered everything i once believed in just like how i never believed in god but i thanked him for you every...
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“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillion people and then me, on...”
– Augusten Burroughs
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robot
sometimes i think that i don’t feel enough and i am ruled by logic.
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they start when you are around
when i was growing up they told me the best things in life are free then why does it cost a couple of greens to get a couple of grams? so i’ve learned that nothing in life is free and it is all blood sweat and tears and maybe we’ve gotta drown in some liquid courage before facing our fears but the temptation to sink peacefully and quietly is much too strong and honest to god i...
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“Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.”
– Catherine of Aragon, 1535 Love Letter
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moving on
i woke up one day and forgot to revolve my whole world around you.
November 2011
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“On my own, I’m nothing, just bleeding. I’m not kissing you goodbye.”
– The Used, Kissing You Goodbye