I'll Follow you pretend you want me to

“A single person is missing for you and the whole world is empty”

“Eyes are distracting. You see too much. You don’t see enough.”

“When hard rain comes, you learn / quick. You straighten your shoulders and hope / this is better than touching.”

“I am homesick for a place I am not sure even exists. One where my heart is full. My body loved. And my soul understood.”

I withdraw from people and places from time to time. I need space from a world that is filled with millions of mouths that talk too much but never have anything to say.

People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like ‘be realistic.

If this is July, why does it look like August?

Times you forget to remember the times you are wrapped up solemn and high in all your aloneness like some dignified chieftain of sorrow,

I’m going to tell you something: Thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.

“I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.”

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

“The things I want to remember I can’t, and the things I try so hard to forget just keep coming.”

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”