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sleepless haiku

i can’t sleep tonight is it because i’m awake in your current dream

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To my daughter I will say, ‘See your beauty without a compliment or a mirror.’

'Blind' by Della Hicks-Wilson (via coldflowers)

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…and I loved you then, so wise from the shower, and I loved you many other times and I have been, for months, trying to drown it, to push it under, to keep its great red tongue under like a fish, but wherever I look they are on fire, the bass, the bluefish, the wall-eyed flounder blazing among the kelp and seaweed like many suns battering up the waves and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me –

Anne Sexton, “Divorce” (via petrichour)

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My heart is so tired.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief  (via jamstains)

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Come with me into the void If you return one day You who, like me dream, Of that wonderful void That absolute love I know that together Without needing to say a single word to each other We will leap Into the reality of that void That awaits our love The way I wait for you every day Come with me into the void.

Leap into the void - Yves Klein 1957 (via dira)

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This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this, and I do not. Everything is unique—and insignificant.

Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born (via thatkindofwoman)

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I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair  (via thatkindofwoman)

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We mature with the damage, not with the years.

Mateus William  (via alexislindsey)