I'll find a way to be without you

Janet Fitch, from White Oleander

Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Richie Hofmann, from "Breed Me"

Franny Choi, from “Grief Is a Thing with Tense Issues”, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

From The Surrender Theory: Poems by Caitlin Conlon

quote is from “The Surrender Theory,” which you can find at the 🔗 in my bio, as always :) fun fact! the original final line read “I tried so hard to love you.” through rounds of editing it became “I tried so hard to do it right” which feels so much better to me. what do you think? https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpf8yzvp0Y2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

via weheartit

[Text ID: I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it,]

Jennifer Givhan, from “I am dark, I am forest”

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

— tbh via euphoric-demonss

[Text ID: “Half daughter, / half apology, all fire and the wrong kind of love.”]

[Text ID: “I am trying to stop doing / things that don’t make any sense. Body, / forgive me. I am trying. I am trying. I am still trying.]