requited.

A collection of what I find achingly beautiful.

[dreamstars]

[mournfulroses]

Emily Brontë, from "Wuthering Heights," originally published in 1847

[poetry-writer]

Poem in honour of me being 4 months clean

“Clean Enough”

the scars fade— and I’m proud, mostly.

my skin forgets what I can’t, and that feels like a small betrayal.

there’s beauty in it, this smoothness, this quiet. but also loss. of proof, of pain, of something that was mine.

still, I wake without bleeding. I choose the day, even when the night whispers.

it isn’t always peace, but it’s something like it. and maybe that’s enough.

for now, I call it clean. and mean it. even if part of me mourns the mess I survived.

[lena-oleanderson]

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

[wizardarchetypes]

they should invent a grief that doesn’t define you in new and strange ways for the rest of your life

[tutta-mia]

Colin King

[tiredsoundsofagnes]

i would make such a beautiful dead bird on the sidewalk

[sleepysera]

"'I have led a toothless life,' he thought. 'A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on--and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What's to be done?'"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (1945)

[shisasan]

𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸
 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[lovefrenchisbetter]

Summer

[orrinivalis]

the ridge

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

[heavensghost]

[love-like-winterr]

Rainy day

[icrossedtheline]

why do i love so hard, and why do they never understand?

Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother’s Heart by Steven Espada Dawson / Getting Older by Billie Eilish / unknown / pinterest / 5. desperation sits heavy on my tongue by @tullipsink / Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka / Against the Loveless World: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa / I Saw the TV Glow, dir. Jane Schoenbrun / miloo_135 on tiktok

[psikonauti]

Hélène Béland (Canadian,b.1949)

Light catcher, 2012

Oil on linen

[mydear]