the notion of love

Poet • Lover • Warrior • ♛ Queen • mąяίe • ๓ą∂ŋєss riddled with bits of magic • instagram:@thenotionoflove • twitter: @thenotionoflove • fb.com/thenotionoflove

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Smile

Every time you smile,

you slip stars under

my skin and galaxies

bloom like gardens,

and I can hear the

sound of something

other than space.

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Things I learned last year I learned that independence is not a solo journey. That sharing myself does not mean giving myself away.

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I couldn't

I couldn’t

I didn’t make my bed this morning because I couldn’t. Because your shape was on my sheets, my pillows smelled like aftershave and I wasnt sure when I’ll behold you again.

I didn’t make my bed this morning so that I would be able to sleep next to you tonight, even though I’m not next to you at all.

Art from @gabrielepennacchioli

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He tries He tells me how he feels ashamed as he explained his struggle to find the right words…

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Remind his worth

He feels that his failure is more devastating to him than it is to you. So when you find him with his fists in his hair and his heart in his mouth, remind him that his worth is not in his words alone but in his heart, and you wouldn’t have him any other way.

When he’s drained and consumed, love him most. When he feels defeated and ready to give up, love him so much that you bring to life every…

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The summer in winter

The summer in winter

His touch was a transitory evocation of summer days. You could almost smell the promise of heat and passion. As the winter coldness kisses my face, I think of his breath like the summer breeze whipping salt unto my skin.

To this day, 14 months and 2,756 miles away, no one makes me ache like you.

My body revolts against itself just so it could miss you. Tag that person you’re missing right…

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Smiles and sunrises

On some days, when the fog and the sun and the wind dance just so, you’ll see flickers of gold through cracks in the clouds, like fine knife cuts, like the stories I carved into my arms as a teenager, quiet and symmetrical, violent and beautiful, as if holding their breath, until light finally bursts in a slow, blinding yellow ripple along the horizon. And on those days, if you forget the roles you…

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Leave your dignity intact Know when it's time to give up.Treat yourself like the QUEEN that you are. There is nothing noble about unrequited love.

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The gamble in relationships

The gamble in relationships

I hate it when you use words like “let’s try” or “we’ll take it slow.”

As if we haven’t already screwed each other up, as if we don’t have scars, scorch marks and blood beneath our fingernails.

Romanticizing forever like we didn’t know the sulfur taste of the abyss, as intimately, as infinitely, like each and every hope that has drowned to it.

Love should not be a gamble to see which of us…

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Declaration of Independence

I am taking back every word every fevered kiss every promise every spark every hope that you stole from me, when I was too naive to realize that giving was an option.

I am carving my declaration of independence from you, into the walls I put up when you left. And if we ever meet again, know that I am who I’ve become inspite of you, not because of.

#bemymuse 29, as requested by 

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Coffee or you? #mood #tgif!

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You are safe

Let my collarbone be your confessional. Leave your d e m o n s here. I will cradle them between my shoulder blades. Let the bed be sweat-stained, fear-stained, sin-stained, and shaking for the hundred and one reasons you never had the courage to name. I will drink the venom of your tragedy and turn it into spring water in our throats. You are safe.

I have been so disconnected with IG lately. I’m…

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Surreal Please forgive me when I see you againif I treat you like a strangermy heart is so used to missing youthat touching you this close againjust feels so surreal,it almost feels criminal . #bemymuse 27, as requested by @surrealspectre.

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Long distance Sometimes, I try to convince myselfthat the distance between us isnot as great as it seems.That we are just 2 souls suspended in orbit, frozen in time. #bemymuse 26, as requested by @holly_hopewell.

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Trust me, I will try

Trust me, I will try

Believe me when I say I don’t want to make promises I can’t keep. Every time I think of telling you I want you for your bad days and your good, I flinch back into myself, saying nothing. I am so afraid of finding out I’m not strong enough to hold the both of us.

But trust me when I say I love you.

And that means I will try anyway.

#bemymuse 25, as requested by @cynthiapadillajd

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Simply just complicated I've met too many men who lovedmy surface but feared my depth. I'm a crazy, chaotic maelstrom of…

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Diwali afterthoughts It didnt matter that the sky above us was exploding into a myriad of colors. I could not hear anything but his laugh, I could not see anything but his smile. The beautiful lights were nothing like the twinkle in his eyes. Everything was magical and mesmerizing, and like us, over too soon.