a place to keep my head above the water

She is the sea And he is the shore They meet on her terms Always He waits, patiently, For the next time She kisses him Soothing his burning sand With her sweet, cool water Before he can return her embrace She is gone Withholding her gentle touch Only to return again When he least expects it Rushing over him In her familiar way

Darkness wipes me out like chalk on a blackboard. I don’t know a thing.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade

“Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.”

You are not clingy, or needy, or silly for having needs for affection and affirmation and attention within a romantic relationship. Those needs aren’t an embarrassing outgrowth of your low-self esteem or depression or whatever messy emotional issues you may have going on, that’s just basic shit that people need from each other. We of course should not make our partners responsible for meeting all of our emotional needs – it’s not someone’s else’s job to make you happy. But inside a healthy relationship, being able to show affection, pay attention, and demonstrate “you are amazing and important to me” is a pleasure, not some task or burden.

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."

How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?”