"I go to seek a Great Perhaps"

[thingswetellourselvesinthedark]

[thingswetellourselvesinthedark]

[timotaychalamet]

Fallen Angels (1995) dir. Wong Kar Wai

[sixpenceee]

A full rotation of the Earth visualised by stabilising the sky over a 24 hour period.

Source

[therapeuticss]

“There is that one friend whom you no longer speak to, who is no longer part of your life. If you saw them across the street, you would turn your head away and they would do the same. But if they ever called you in the middle of the night, you would be there for them, sure as the sun. And you know that if you were the one to make that call, no matter how much time has passed or how distant you've become, they would be there for you.”

[remanence-of-love]

[destroymylife]

[declaringwar]

[thingswetellourselvesinthedark]

declaringwar: Insignificant

[up2sky]

[wisp-of-thought]

I broke a heart once. Twice. A few times. It is not what one might expect. Because I assure you every promise I have broken hurt me as much as it did you. Every night you cried yourself to sleep I was granted no such relief. I laid awake in bed, tossing and turning. Feeling the fragments of your heart sprinkled and caught in the bedsheets. They cut me every time I moved, breathed, blinked. Raging a million paper cut wound revenges. And I, bled out into the blankets without resistance. Thinking maybe you could use this blood sacrifice like glue. But you have never been the blood thirsty type.

~I never thought I would break a heart

[leohearts]

“Tell them I was the warmest place you knew and that you turned me cold.”

— Rupi Kaur

[mooncrvmbs]

Anyone who knew me would say that I loved you far too much. Like a wildfire, or the sharp edge of a knife.

Anyone would've told you that I stopped being the person I was the second you walked into my life.

They would've said love wasn't supposed to drive you crazy, make you want to scratch at your skin.

And they were right.

Because there was love and then there was you.

- Sea of Strangers, Lang Leav

🎧 - Timeless, NCT U

[luxjii]

[metaphorformetaphor]

“But have we not had our fill of parting?”

— Ghazi Al Ghosabi, from “Which One of Us Returned Safely?,” Gathering the Tide: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry (Ithaca Press, 2012)

[metaphorformetaphor]

“She had that rare quality: the courage to show love;”

— Stig Dagerman, from The Games of Night (Quartet Books, 1986; first published 1947)

[lifeinpoetry]

“Thinking about how the demand for closure in writing often just means the death of insight. In life, though, closure means more insight, right? At least this is what it feels like when I imagine it.”

— — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, from The Freezer Door

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“But the mind always wants more than it has– one more bright day of sun, one more clear night in bed with the moon; one more hour to get the words right; one more chance for the heart in hiding to emerge from its thicket in dried grasses–as if this quiet day with its tentative light weren’t enough, as if joy weren’t strewn all around.”

— Holly J. Hughes, from “Mind Wanting More,” Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, eds. Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)