Dear Kevin

“maybe it was you who woke me today in the dark; I know you’re still around here somewhere.”

“My hands reach for you, through the absence we endure, beyond the aching.”

“There are no tears able to wash the kisses of death.”

“I have not released my heart.”

“I love you. I feel as though we were never strangers, you and I, not even for a moment.”

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

“In the graveyard of the sea there is nothing but eternity.”

“after you’re the sad girl / you don’t get to be anything else”

“I miss your arms wrapped around my body. I miss your hands running up and down my spine. Please come over and hold me so I can forget about the world. Please suffocate me and promise you won’t let go. I want you to hug me so tight that I can’t even breathe right. I’m ready to die in your arms, because I’m finally home again.”

“I long for you and for our fairy tale.”

“I have had it all and want it back again,”

“It will never be finished.”

“I have only you in this world. You are always with me. It’s better than a song in the blood. I only have you, and I love only you.”

“Daydreams were what kept me going, day after day, and I had no right to them.”

To heal, you must learn to be alone.