“My life, it used to be this vibrant thing, overflowing with potential.”

— Chris Leja, “Aporia"  (via buttonpoetry)

“I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything”

— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Midnight To You (handwritten original)

Another Love

His hollow words The echo that I need To break the silence Of my heartbreak And wake me up to The kaleidoscope of Life and the way it all Comes back around His shallow breaths The oxygen I need To fan this inferno dance Inside my soul that Rages for another man Another love completely

Real poetry (or at least mine) is messy as hell. #spilledink #poem #poetry

“back when we were strangers”

“I’m always running late I’m always running I’m always trying to move time backwards & tell everyone that I love them.”

— Hanif Abdurraqib, from The Crown Ain’t Worth Much 

“A poet loves someone not simply because that someone is poetry material. A poet loves someone because that someone makes them feel like poetry.”

— Juansen Dizon

“If you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly think. It’s just the way they defend themselves against what they want. They believe in it, but pretend they don’t until they’re allowed to. Most people would throw away their cynicism if they could. The majority just never get the chance.” - Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

via @the-book-diaries

“I am running out of ways to say I love you, so instead, I will ask you to be safe. You are precious cargo in a world full of damned chances.”

— Schuyler Peck, Precious Cargo (via schuylerpeck)

Living our life fully and deeply requires courage. If we cannot be happy right now, we need to ask ourselves why. We need to find out what it is. What’s weighing us down or pulling us away from the present moment?

Thich Nhat Hanh

I want to lay down and fade away.

Every time I come back to Houston I fall apart, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.

“Got tired of being a house on fire, / so I became a poet.”

— Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, from The Easy Body

“lost in your lies”

“I understood the necessity of beauty, of an atmosphere of silence, of a void even in which the imagination might blossom.”

— Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993

“Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”

— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

I didn’t ask for this kind of call-out