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Marie-Helene Bertino
#having to write ex-boyf out of my vocabulary has been genuinely so much more of a struggle than i was ready for#poetry inspo
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Ada Limón, from "To the Busted Among Us", Sharks in the Rivers
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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 20 March 1928
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having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer
#cannot tell you how deeply i needed to see this right now#thank you aisha from months ago#will try to remember this
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— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)
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“It wasn't about anything so shallow
as physical desire.
They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound.”
— Micah Nemerever, "These Violent Delights"
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Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”
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don’t want to be a girl i want to be a single star in the night sky shining so bright all the way to lonely people who look up and hope to see a sign
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