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you know too much to make a bomb shelter out of a boy again.

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All that is full is not presence. Presence, by all accounts, is empty. Does it tear you apart to see your presence so empty-bellied? When I think of love, I see inability.

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i don’t give in, but three nights ago i said your name over and over until i could breathe.

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your flaws give way to your resilience. 

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I love you like I want to write about you constantly
Which is to say,
I will love you with all the metaphors in my fingers
I will pull poetry out of your throat when you kiss me
And I will whisper it in the nape of your neck at night. 

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The very notion of you rocks me at my core.
For you were written into time and space,
delivered to the stars centuries ago.

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Thank you.

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You are enough.

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You watched me
Like a predator watches its prey
And when you finally caught me,
Struggle was useless.

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let me tell you about the dream in which
you told me you were lying when 
you said you’d stopped loving me.