‘ when I was five, I burned my hand on the stove my mother never warned me not to touch ‘
‘ your soul seeks the warmth ’
‘ tell me again how our ashes were too holy for this universe to taste ’
‘ you have bitten your tongue so many times it no longer remembers how to bleed ’
‘ you have an army of words hidden behind your teeth ’
‘ what a modern fucking tragedy you turned out to be ’
‘ what do you think the stars wish for then ? ’
‘ maybe i could have loved you if i’d prayed another way ’
‘ maybe i could have loved you in any life but ours , now ’
‘ i found a catalyst for disaster in you ’
‘ i don’t know if it’s true but i’d like to believe it ’
‘ i’d like to believe that we exist living a thousand lives , side by side ’
‘ you would consume me ’
‘ my organs are tied in knots ’
‘ my bones are headstones ’
‘ tell me we’re not still hollow ’
‘ tell me we’re forgiven ’
‘ smile with your teeth , darling ’
‘ do not be afraid to show the world that you would eat it whole ’
‘ you are the brightest goddamn sun i have ever seen ’
‘ mention our ghosts , our knotted spines ’
‘ we are graveyards , reaching , with haunted bones ’
‘ we endure ’
‘ this heaviness in my chest , i wanted to give this ache a name ’
‘ there are no pain receptors in the lungs ’
‘ with every breath i swallow , i drown ’
‘ you are in my bones , wherever i go , know — i take you with me ’
‘ you matter ’
‘ but for right now , in this very moment , you exist ’
‘ you don’t have to be , you already are ’
‘ soulmates aren’t rare , they aren’t ’
‘ you’ll meet a thousand soulmates , just as you’ll live a thousand lives ’
‘ knowing them is like being found without ever knowing you were lost ’
‘ you can’t give your storms to someone else ’
‘ nothing lasts forever , not even the rain ’
‘ to be is terrifying and it’s okay to fear ’
‘ there will be hollow spaces beneath your heart and in your ribs ’
‘ don’t claw out your throat while waiting for someone else to scream ’
‘ blood beneath your fingertips isn’t easy to clean ’
‘ where death becomes , red lips are stained ’
‘ doomed are we to seek an absolution we will never touch ’
‘ in some other universe you’re asleep ’
‘ everyone leaves ’
‘ the important ones come back ’
‘ you’re not a ghost , you can’t haunt those that forget you ’
‘ don’t count your breaths as you cross the street ’
‘ every moment passes into another until it doesn’t ’
‘ everything ends and it’s okay ’
‘ behind every constellation , there is a pathway to another you and i ’
‘ every star is another story , every night a different sky ’
‘ we end , to begin again ’
‘ beyond every somewhere , we still exist ’
‘ there are a thousand theories , we are only one ’