The Lou

[secretumpoeta]

Will I think of you later? Will I miss you? Dream of you? My love you have no idea. You are a constant in both wake and sleep. Our human condition, so fragile at times, the desire to be loved completely and without fail wanting to know we are as constant as the North Star in our other’s hearts. With you? It is so. It as become such that I cannot imagine a world, a life, a me without you. Where you go, I will always follow, even leaving this world behind. For if there is no you, this world would no longer have meaning. I would breathe, walk, talk…but only an echo of my former self. In short, I would be lost. A ship adrift. I care not for that world, that existence. You are my everything. ~ B.T.

[jasongrabowski-deactivated20220]

alone

in the dark

these sad eyes

get me nowhere

and yet

here we are

[whatsinaname03]

I just don't think I could go another lifetime dreaming of you.

[mournfulroses]

Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter featured in Letters to Vera published in 2014

[mournfulroses]

Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter featured in Letters to Vera published in 2014

[thoughtkick]

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”

— Unknown

[thehopefulquotes]

“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.”

— Unknown

[jasongrabowski-deactivated20220]

wonderlust

I was born emotional by nature

but I turned calculating by design

so I know my forest forged delusions

were always simple constructs of my mind

and still my sleepy heart remains unsure

of truths my thoughts so long ago defined

thus forsaking the foregone conclusion

that there is no more hope for me to find

[jasongrabowski-deactivated20220]

alone

in the dark

these sad eyes

get me nowhere

and yet

here we are

[whatsinaname03]

The hardest part?

Doing it all alone.

[jasongrabowski-deactivated20220]

I am undone

a pulsing

writhing thing

shadow spelled

and precarious

[jasongrabowski-deactivated20220]

I’m not optimistic enough

to hope for world peace

though

it would certainly make

finding personal peace

a helluva lot easier

[jasongrabowski-deactivated20220]

how then

am I still dreaming

of a world

without me in it?

[whatsinaname03]

All I've gathered

In this life is,

You find a soul mate

Only to lose them

[drearydaffodil]

Everyone is a

Mosaic, shattered pieces

Shot through with sunlight

[fravery]

“A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.“ 

 ~Saul Leiter

[whatsinaname03]

Please, Universe, let this be my last go around.