Digital Prayers

nothing left to say here

[digitalprayers]

poet of ruin

kindess a-plenty, and yet

loving out of reach.

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to god i lay my heart by his feet. i am weak and willful

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Do you know what its

Like to hug on the frozen

Pond you grew up by?

[digitalprayers]

“Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!"

-Henry Scott Holland

If I die untimely, read this and remember the good times. The hot chocolate times. The catching frog times, the finding an owl times.

[digitalprayers]

It hits me like a gasp of air

Like a... promising smile, the one you can't share but you can trust in.

[thoughtkick]

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”

— John Green (Turtles All the Way Down)

[thoughtkick]

“Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone is being mean to you all the time.”

— Christine Arylo

[digitalprayers]

If I don't have love, I have nothing.

Can I love you? Would I be able to?

Would God let me have you?

Your smile is a kind of Gentle I have still not known.

Your eyes contain an exigency for the softest of Love.

Could I provide this? Have I provided it?

Love bears all things.

God is love, and so, as long as I have him, I can care for you.

All things are possible through Him, his Son, and the Spirit

Love, for me, is praying that you truly know this.

10/13/24

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you were constructed in a holy way. it is evidenced and framed between every shadow that touches your face.

when the skin of your palm curves against mine

Its like the feeling isn't subject to time.

10/12/24

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A crowded bedroom... The softest of touches... The most loving smile.

10/11/24

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you bring me a certain kind of midnight smile I never thought I'd be happy with dead arms

holding you makes me remember I have purpose.

10/11/24

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sharing coffee, love. sharing smiles, truly peaceful sharing moments, soon.

10/8/24

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Names are capricious things.

We awake on our first day here with the supposition that our name; is ours.

But names are given and taken, transferred and deferred hyphened and thrown away, changed and changed back.

Honey drips from my tongue on my way to each syllable of yours.

The only thing I could imagine would be sweeter would be for me to give you mine. Neither here, nor there; but from then to anywhere.

10/7/24

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Your pupils implore a preciousness I still cannot place, a deepness that stills my heart. The light that bounces from your eyes must be blessed, my love. Every time I see them I'm reminded that I might just be worth the pain.

I don't mind if we go nowhere, as long as we are together, anywhere.

10/6/24

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Your heart is a home,

one that I would defend.

every furnishing you place, every knick knack, every drawing on the walls, including the ones you know annoy me.

To keep you safe,,,, to keep,,, you

I would twist my arms to knots

lift what I needed to, no matter how heavy.

a house I want to rest in, a house I want to build.

A house, that I want to name as my love.

10/5/24

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