i have never been wise

[lapin-ou]

Mariano Peccinetti

[theeternityofitall]

“Once, I kissed someone and I’m afraid it ruined the world. I’ve learned it’s not what you do with the knife—it’s how you hold it after. But how do you hold something like that? Something that never stops baring its teeth; a voiceless dog, all bite, no bark.”

— Yasmin Belkhyr, from “Surah Al-Fatiha,” Bone Light (via lifeinpoetry)

[theeternityofitall]

“When I fell for you, I started wondering how every other person you have ever met did not.”

— P.G.G (via for-him-diaries)

[moondusttown]

-Virginia Woolf, The Letters to Virginia Woolf, Volume 3

[havingapoemwithyou]

how to not be a perfectionist by Molly Brodak

[theeternityofitall]

I would do anything to be close with you again, except voluntarily

(But oh, please force me)

[thelatestkate]

[knittykitty86]

@gothiccharmschool

[lucydacusgirl]

Anyway.

Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.

[theeternityofitall]

This grieving rage - this raging grief

[snarksandkisses]

ALT

[bakafox]

Voting as Fire Extinguishter (poem by Kyle Tran Myhre)

When the haunted house catches fire:

a moment of indecision.

The house was, after all, built on bones,

and blood, and bad intentions.

Everyone who enters the house feels

that overwhelming dread, the evil

that perhaps only fire can purge.

It’s tempting to just let it burn.

And then I remember:

there are children inside.

[lovely-abeille-deactivated20241]

on losing love

leo & catherine, the great // your love finds its way back, sierra demulder // holly warburton // ?, sue zhao // cassandra: a novel and four essays, christa wolf // ? /// ? // horoscope for the heartbroken, schuyler peck // i bet on losing dogs, mitski // war of the foxes, richard siken

[theeternityofitall]

Like the relationship, even my grief feels incomplete.

I find myself yearning for what never was - complete, utter, definite bliss. I guess it’s a testament to both our characters (or perhaps our fear of being alone?) that we made it this far.

[feral-ballad]

Alda Merini, tr. by Susan Stewart, from Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini; “When the anguish”

[Text ID: “ancient hunger”]

[theeternityofitall]

You

Have

Ruined

Me

Like Caesar ruined Rome

[intopermanence]

Who to rent myself out to? What beast should I adore? What sacred image is being attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lie must I maintain? — What blood shall I trample?

Arthur Rimbaud, trans. by Mark Polizzotti, from A Season in Hell: “Bad Blood”

[sunriserollercoaster]

a field guide to getting lost, rebecca solnit

[geryone]

The Shared World, Vievee Francis