Swallow taile

Cultivate an understanding that life is long, that people both change and remain the same, that every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we’re all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, that all roads lead eventually to the mountaintop.

Someone who has been emotionally abused will:

Or they may be

Wearing the scars of a thousand lifetimes, a divine flame burns like smoky, secret incense through the spirt

I know that’s what people say— you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in [that person] reminds you of [them].

I’ve hoarded your name in my mouth for months. My throat is a beehive pitched in the river. Look! Look how long this love can hold its breath.

If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to respond quietly, and how to stop talking when there is nothing more to say.

I have a lot in my head the way I have a lot of poetry in my head. I have it going on all the time. I have this experience where I dream at the same time that I’m awake. It’s really irritating. Everyone always says it must be wonderful but it isn’t, it’s terrible.