Iâm at that age when everyone is talking about the kinds of love theyâve been using to get by.Â
Meet me on the boardwalk. Iâll be sure to wear my eyes.Â
Do not forget your face. I could never.
Although I encompass so much, I accomplish so little.
Evan says the idea that you can be transformed by love is melodramatic and childish.
He says love unveils you. That whoever you were you still are. Only now maybe youâre more so. You can afford courage.
Love unmasks us and thatâs risky. But essential.
Tell me what terrifies you. Tell me who is most necessary for your
survival.
This is a catch-22 though, because if you are called a man and you feel like a man and everyone thinks you are a man and you do all the things that real men are supposed to do, then chances are you are a fucking asshole and I hate you.Â
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesnât need anymore of that sound.
And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.
I wanted to be free of the bullying urge to feel, or to care, or to sympathize.
How much of my life, of anyoneâs life, is spent in neutral gear? The economics of emotions demand it.
At some point you stop being children, and at that point you become strangers.
The brain says No to the Universe, Prove it, but the heart is susceptible, pining for a look, a kind word.
I had no choice, I knew that I was dying.
Because he is dead he has time but I have my secrets â this is what separates us from the dead.
Itâs strange that our love of beauty should lead us to hell.
My improvidence was to have been too hopeful.Â
But often the shadow seems more real than the body.  The samurai looks insignificant beside his armor of black dragon scales.
The body has always been waiting for the heart to sense It is housed, it is needed, it will not be harmed.
I wanted to see where beauty comes from without you in the world.
If I get the story right, desire is continuous, equatorial.
Where is the evidence I will learn to be good at loving?
Let me remember how to touch you before it is too late.