November

[novembersnotes]

you have the code to the safe I keep closed off to everybody else, the things I value are trusted with you and worth sharing

[novembersnotes]

If I have no home to go back to in life, it brings me comfort knowing I'll always have a place in your heart

[novembersnotes]

how can my happiness be ephemeral when I have you by my side?

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My soul and yours are the same. You appear in me, I in you. We hide in each other.

Rumi

[novembersnotes]

You are the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, and you continue to walk weightlessly over every surface in my dreams, brushing against my eyelids once more before I wake up

[novembersnotes]

I guess I myself ignited the flame, and you are simply an endless canister of gasoline

[novembersnotes]

I would eat my own hands if it meant I was allowed to look at your pretty face again

[novembersnotes]

you encapsulate the beauty of an aurora in a simple glare you shoot my way as we lock eyes

[novembersnotes]

I hope our kids have my eyes so I can see the same soul you saw, and understand why you called me beautiful

[novembersnotes]

your presence reminds me of the warmth my favourite colour brings me

[novembersnotes]

someone can be there by your side, or behind you to support you if you fall, but they can't be pushing you up the hill you're trying to climb

[novembersnotes]

I'll tear your clothes off like the spine of a book and run my fingers through all your pages

[novembersnotes]

even though you are full of flesh and blood, I will hold onto you like fragile glass, a one of a kind

[mournfulroses]

Yes, I like being able to hold on to something forever, no matter how small it is.

Christa Wolf, from "They Divided The Sky: A Novel," publ. in 1963

[novembersnotes]

I told myself I'd never love again, so when you showed up I felt like I'd fell for someone for the first time

[mournfulroses]

Robert Desnos, from Essential Poems & Writings; "Infinitive,"

[novembersnotes]

I'd cover my entire body in bruises every day if it meant you were never harmed in any way ever again