Poetry

Addiction can be a pretty thing when it has dark brown eyes and a know-it-all smile

[poetrylovebitch]

I just want someone to miss me the way I miss them. Fuck I hurt. I want to sleep but all I can see is your face and you’re talking to other girls and I’m just stuck. Again. Alone. Again. Why can’t you miss me? When did you stop loving me? Did you ever love me? Do you miss my body? Why wasn’t I enough. How often does my name run across your mind? How often do your hands run across another girls body? Do you feel any remorse when you flirt with another? Do you drink to forget my name? I drink to forget yours but only find your love at the bottom of the bottle. Will you wait for me? Put your lust to the side and come back to me. Did you ever love me the way I loved you?

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[holdingcaulfields]

on identity

ojibwe / noah kahan / richard siken / unknown / elliott smith / oamisoa / cameron awkward-rich

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

[thehopefulquotes]

“If you don’t fight for what you want, don’t cry for what you lost.”

— Jan Jansen

[resqectable]

“I’m better than you think. I’m even better than I think I am.”

— Dave Eggers

[thoughtkick]

“I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body.”

— Tara Hardy, Bone Marrow

[stay-close]

“Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you come to your senses.”

— Socrates

[mournfulroses]

Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov; "Platonov,"

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

[Text ID: “you’re homesick / for all the lives / you’re not living.”]

[lunamonchtuna]

to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

[thehopefulquotes]

“Everyone makes mistakes in life but that doesn’t mean they have to pay for them for the rest of their life. Sometimes good people make bad choices. That doesn’t mean they’re bad. It means they’re human.”

— Unknown

[mournfulroses]

Claudia Rankine, from her book titled Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

[surqrised]

“What do you say when you’re not enough to make someone stay? What do you do when you meet the love of your life and realize it’s all about timing? How do you accept that no matter how perfect you are for each other, circumstances get in the way? How do you compete with that kind of fate?”

— Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[jaywritesandwrites]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Captain Flint (via letsbeloneytogetherr)