And I Will Kiss Every Single Scar On Your Body And Soul, To Remind You That Love Doesn't

"I swear there is no greater burden than to wait without hope."

— Beau Taplin from The Waiting

its so hard to believe someone could love me. im always always too much or too little. never enough.

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

The woven silk of

Silence, petals fluttering

A delicate day

And the world is wavering

Between soft kiss and collapse

“I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.”

— Unknown

2 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

so soft it hurts

Everything is about perspective. ~beccawise7 💜🖤

I do not believe there is a more dangerous and destructive force in all the world than hope, but I do not believe there is a more necessary or perfectly beautiful one either.

Tyler Knott Gregson

We scroll past

starving children

to buy shoes we don’t need

and call it life.

Babies are born

with lungs full of poison,

their bodies warped

by toxins we dumped for profit.

Mothers wrap sons

in flags

like it softens

the sound of a coffin closing.

We skin the earth

for gold and oil

and hang it on our necks

while forests burn

and oceans bleed.

We worship Gods

but not Their creation.

Pray louder

than we love.

Animals scream in silence.

Children rot in camps.

Water is sold.

Air is dying.

Truth is filtered.

Kindness forgotten.

We kill over dirt

though we are made of stars.

We hoard

while others die thirsty.

This is not a world,

it is a graveyard

we are still digging

with our eyes wide open.

-Cyrus K.