starters / prompts taken from f. d. soulâs work , between you and these bones . feel free to change pronouns / tenses as necessary .
â the problem is you keep trying to use your eyes â
â how i soften when you pull me against you â
â you are teaching me to love â
â i will pretend that i have not already heard the question in your eyes â
â you perhaps will become my swan song â
â it is a very human thing to love â
â you are my good days â
â i have been loved dearly â
â i promise you will not always be this war â
â thank god for the stubbornness of organs â
â it takes me seven days to stop being in love with you â
â there will always be another day â
â there will always be another mercy â
â perhaps i will take up dancing again â
â what a pretty little disaster you will be â
â i am terrified for you â
â i will fold inside of myself â
â today i am thankful â
â i didnât want to sleep because i didnât want to wake â
â come and get me â
â i tell myself i do not need you â
â i think i broke again last night â
â iâm just trying to connect with you â
â you are an ocean that will perhaps never stop crashing â
â burn the house down in search of yourself â
â donât you dare ever stop looking â
â i struggle not to feel guilty â
â you are a wild , unkempt thing â
â sometimes it is a very sad thing to be human and longing â
â find that you are made of russian nesting dolls â
â the trees are always kindest with spring comes â
â teach yourself the hymns again â
â he is every amen i have ever laid down on lips â
â this life is an altar â
â i am sorry i do not have more time â
â there is a mountain in me â
â by the morning i am a triumph â
â there are words playing hooky in the back of your throat â
â today is by far the most beautiful creature i have ever come across â
â there are many things that will fit beneath your skin â
â forgiveness does not take up much room â
â some days you will breathe and it will be enough â
â you do not have to hold it quite so tightly â
â there is a prayer in me , still â
â you scare me a little â
â you can be a good thing and not a whole thing â
â there are flowers in my chest again â
â the rain comes and sounds like you â
â i cannot tell you why i still trust god â
â find peace and build a home out of it â
â there is never an end â