one and only

I cannot part with you. I am you

[weltenwellen]

Warsan Shire, from "Extreme Girlhood", Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[ryebreadgf]

From How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from "Starlings in Winter" from Owls and Other Fantasies

[ryebreadgf]

From How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett

[heavensghost]

shame is sharp, and my skin gives so easy

[metamorphesque]

The Trouble with Being Born, E. M. Cioran (translated by Richard Howard)

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[lunamonchtuna]

cruel how loving someone rewires you permanently.

[lunamonchtuna]

— Ivan Yan (source)

[free-my-mindd]

Forgive yourself

[heavensghost]

Words from nettles by Ethel Cain

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, "Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything"

[geryone]

Dog Woman, Chris Abani

[inkpressedpetals]

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[primulaceas]

Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

[paper-wounds]

[sunsetquotes]

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.

Sharon Olds; Satan Says