Cayleejayde

“Let them miss you. Sometimes when you are always available, they take you for granted because they think you will always stay.”

““Come with every wound and every woman you’ve ever loved; every lie you’ve ever told and whatever it is that keeps you up at night. Every mouth you’ve punched in, all the blood you’ve ever tasted. Come with every enemy you’ve ever made and all the family you’ve ever buried and every dirty thing you’ve ever done; every drink that’s burnt your throat and every morning you’ve woken with nothing and no one. Come with all your loss, your regrets, sins, memories, black outs, secrets. I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than you.””

“Perhaps I should not have learned to adore pleasures that could not last?”

“You are the first person I ever showed my heart to and you are the reason no one will ever see it again.”

“Yes, there was depth in her. But no one would find a thing if they descended into her depths—except depth itself, as in the dark you find the dark.”

Eyes—wild, laughing, yet desperate—

Even on the good days, he is a mountain I can’t climb. A bridge I can’t get over. His spine means sacrifice. Means look at all the ways I stretched myself out for you. Look at all the ways it wasn’t enough. It’s my fault for showing him the wolves in my belly. The moons I swallowed until my stomach howled from the weight of it all. He carried carnivals in his hands and kissed me like he was on top of a Ferris wheel every time. Like he saw the world from where he was standing. He still loves me, I understand, but he is someone else’s best poem now. To that person I’d like to say: I’m sorry for the stars I painted on the inside of his eyelids. I wanted him to see galaxies growing through my skin. even when he was asleep. I miss him terribly, and I loved him terribly, I know, but I hope you bring the prince in him back to life. I’m sorry about the dragons I left behind.

Things to remember when you want to say "no," assert yourself, and ask for what you want

—Can you leave your flower long enough just to look at mine?