If only you could crawl under my skin, would you adore all my sins?

i love. i love love. i love being loved. and above all, i love you.

Do not mock a pain you baven't endured.

"You're staring." "Yeah." He smiled.

I avoid my gaze in the mirror; I have no interest in learning what it feels like to meet my eyes.

I believe in poems that stain the mouth

I am sick of haunting myself from with in like an old house

How do I look away now that I have seen you?

My crime was feeling everything too deeply, my punishment was surviving it

I believe in poems that stain the mouth

My love would scare a therapist, but it would thrill a poet

You get nervous when someone holds your hand. You wonder if they feel the rot

Sometimes family isn't what you're born into. Sometimes family is found.

You, mother, are the author of everything that I am.

You don't arm yourself after war has been declared. You build your army so big that no one dares pick the fight

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all

I’m tired in ways sleep can not fix

I memorized your laugh before I realized what I felt was love

I’m not arguing. I’m explaining why I’m right.

I am a man yearning for the very curve of your eyes. The upend of your lips. All of you has haunted my waking and unsealing moments

We're a team remember. You and Me. And no one's taking you away from me, not even you.

My love would scare a therapist, but it would thrill a poet

Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven

she doesn't have a religion. her faith resides in the stars, flowers, ocean, and herself.

“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?" "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”

The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed

Family. You promised

I’m not arguing. I’m explaining why I’m right.

I will love the very worst of you, while there is little, until the oceans are dust

I adored her, she was to me what a religious figure is to the most faithful worshipper.