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[miraverba]

death does not scare me.

love does.

the fear burns intolerably into my fingertips, crawling up my hands and into my eyes. not knowing what to say or how to act, stumbling over my bones like i do with my words. my rattling heart breaks my ribcage, leaving my aching body to melt with you.

i am falling so terribly in love.

~ poetic.lovely (@poetic.lovely tiktok)

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I long for our souls, To be so deeply intertwined, That Death himself would weep, When faced with the thought, Of separating us.

~ dd (deanepoetry on tiktok)

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I’ll cry about this earth in heaven too

~ Marina Tsvetaeva, “A Hero of Labor”

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Sick of his own face, sick of his skin, of the dark, he crawls outside himself to sing-

a better poet than most.

~ Hosho McCreesh, “Cicada”

[miraverba]

FRANZ KAFKA IS DEAD

He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."

~ Nicole Krauss, “The History of Love”

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I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence.

~ José Olivarez, “Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad”