Iridescent Sunset Rising while fallingdown

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Iridescent Sunset

Rising while falling

down.

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jump

Falling in love is like skydiving without knowing whether I carry weights or a parachute.

Loving her, I didn't care.

You don't fear falling; you fear hitting the ground.

I was never going to land.

Six-word stories

Brain: be patient.

Heart: until when?

I love you too

Catches feelings.

Throws them back.

Weird flex, but okay.

closer

On this round earth, there is only so much distance - can travel before I'm inevitably coming back to you.

How do I know I love you?

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I miss you even when I'm happy.

message me / hold my hand

I reach for my phone as if it were your hand.

life tasting

When I kissed her - I tasted the rest of my life, and it was beautiful.

Why I love Doctor

Instead of a weapon

They gave him a screwdriver to fix things.

Instead of superpowers, they gave him two hearts to care more.

Instead of a battleship, they gave him a police box to call for help.

We need more heroes like that.

Legacy

Oh, darling, you'll change the world.

extract from Already Gone

Words, lasting longer than people.

hopeful romantic

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"You're a hopeless romantic!" Hopeful, I'm hopeful.

no beauty without you

If you do not see the beauty within you, If your heart has been filled with doubt, I'll tell you the world is beautiful with you, Because indeed there is no beauty without.

delusion

I know that I have very little time, but sorrow for you is all that I've got for I wake up each day knowing I'm dying, and you wake up thinking you're not.

coal

We used to talk for hours; Now our chats didn’t even scroll. Where did It all just go?

How did we move from diamond to coal?

Why do you have tattoos on your wrists?

I rather have art and reminders Than scars and regrets.

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Five simple rules:

I. Always be kind.

2. Love well.

3. Have no expectations.

4. Give more, take less.

5. Find what you love; let it kill you.

#samerulesapply

just you

Memories of you are my most prized possessions.

I hope it's you I see when my life flashes before my eyes.

Junkyard

When you are not fed love from a silver spoon.

You settle for licking it off knives.

Excerpt from pain.'

If you do fall in love with pain.

Be careful; she will bind your wrists with worthlessness and make you want to cut its invisible binds.

You can slit your wrists on my shoulder blades because I have only love to give.

P may not be a hooker for pain, But I am a slut for hugs.

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Remember.

The sun will rise again.

Untouched

They say it takes seven years for all the cells in our body to be replaced.

There will come a day when you shall have cheeks my hands will not have caressed.

Only of you

She enchanted my pen. It rights only of her.

open-hearted

Don't be foolish, and give her your heart! She's just going to hurt you and break it.

Why not?

What a privilege that would be.

It's funny how the opening looks a lot like breaking.

Opening hours.

You did not break my heart.

Funny how opening can look a lot like breaking.

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If I wrote the news:

Airline pilots' careers take off.

Heartquake.

One day you said you loved me and my knees felt like they were built on fault lines quaking.

only time

Love me: Let me feel alive.

Archaeology of love

If they dusted your heart for fingerprints would they find mine?

Who’s ready?

Maybe you are not ready for love.

Maybe love is not ready for you.

lost without you

Loving you may bring heartache Though the pain is worth the cost, For living in a world without you Is one in which I'd surely be lost

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If anyone asks

who she was to me, I'd tell them that

Cho was my musician And I wanted to be a song on her favourite playlist, one that she knew all the words to And for the first time, I wanted to be played.

hallucinations

I've never hallucinated a voice that liked me.

Burning

- threw me at love

was a moth to her flame

And - repair my scorched wings Just to love once again They all warned me that I was insane, But I never seemed to learn. How do you save somebody convinced that they should burn?

If I spoke words of water, yow would drown

True Face

Put on a mask; let me see your true face.

Silence.

The voices were loudest when I was alone.

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time, thy teacher

The clock ticks, tocks, and taunts me.

She is showing me that even it can move on even when it do not.

prepared

I know you'll do great without me.

I know I've prepared you for every guy you'll date, every guy you'll marry and every guy you'll hate

Let me hear your heartbeat.

I reach for your hand and return with just my phone instead.

Your hand is the only one I want to hold.

Every notification a doesreminder that you're not next to me.

confession

I am a man in need of confession more than any other, but I regret it would take too much time when the offer

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was made.

the cost

Heartache was the price I paid for loving deeply.

How lucky I am to afford it.

On my darkest days, I had solar-powered happiness, And She wore sunshine in her smile.

Icarus

She was like the sun.

I was like her, Icarus.

share my happiness

How do I know I love you

I miss you even when I'm happy.

take my breath away

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You've taken my breath away so often in the past; no doubt you'll take many more; I pray you to take my last.

#SixWordStories

She kissed away, all my sadness.

I do not need three wishes, just one:

“Stay!"

progress report

- spend my spare time trying to convince my shadow that I am someone worth following.

Now, I stand back to back with mountains to show them how much I have grown.

I am leaving space.

Now when they leave, I'm no longer scared.

Instead, I look at the space they've left behind.

From parts they occupied and parts of me they took.

And M, I imagine the beauty can fill that space with.

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If there is a God, He has her heartbeat on his favourite playlist, and he listens to it on repeat.

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before you were ready

Maybe the worst thing - did to you was love you before you were ready for it.

can he do this

He may borrow my words and speak them sweetly to you, but he'll never be able to plagiarize the way that I love you.

Ok, to say goodbye They say they'll stay.

But they leave.

It will hurt.

Don't hate them.

Love is being happy that they are.

goodbye goodbye

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- say goodbye,

Hoping the universe keeps score.

may say hello once more.

- repeat it, Hoping,

broken

- gave you my love I gave you my heart

Would you love me when I'm weak? Would you love me if I fell apart

Threaten me.

When did love stop being a pleasure and started being a threat?

She was the universe showing off.

incandescent

Well, we all make mistakes.

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Someone told me they loved me yesterday.

I told them we all make mistakes.

I don't think that's the correct answer.

If I could pour her thoughts in a bottle, I would drink until my friends took away my keys.

To my haters,

There is only one thing I do better than you.

I hate myself

more than you, And I'd probably apologize for that too.

Ever could.

Darling, do not feel bad for not loving me as you think I should.

I didn't love myself enough to show you how you could.

incomparable

Oh, love,

Quit comparing your behind the scenes to everyone else's highlight reel.

You got this.

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more sweat

She tells me to put in the effort and to let go of my fears because sweat holds more value than tears.

souled

Maybe we confuse soul mates with sole mates, maybe we have many soul mates, each perfect

for a part of our soul, for an amount of our time.

Never all our soul, never all at once, but always perfect.

Write me something encouraging.

"You leave.

They move on."

How is that auspicious?

"It's in the right order."

belief

I do not need to believe in God when she believed in me.

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#SixWordStories

tell them about you

"Until you have done something for humanity, you should be ashamed to die." he wrote . Horace Mann The best I can do for the world is telling them about you.

Trip.

I fall in love so easily. All you need to do is exist.

no happy endings

There are no happy endings are the saddest part so just give me a happy middle and a happy start.

applause

And there you were, sat in the audience.

They were applauding me with the hands that will never hold me again.

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outlived by milk

Perspective changes everything.

Today stopped checking expiration dates.

#SixWordStories

There's always something to live for.

We make time for what matters.

Do I?

could you

Would you stop my tears with kisses? Could you bring them to a halt? Could you teach me

that this pain Isn't always my fault?

Poem

She was not so easily summarized.

#sixwordstories

more forever please Please, Just this once Can

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"forever" Last just a little Longer.

If I wrote the news:

Mechanic removes spanner from works

#fakenews

I reached for a hand and a little hope, but instead was handed a little rope.

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this is how I love you.

- tried to understand how much I love you.

…now I understand.

Until i saw a bee drown in honey.

evidence

My heart.

only has your fingerprints.

#SixWordStories

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Unpromise me.

People don't know what they are promising when they promise them.

They don't mean to break them, forgive hem.

the better view

You stared at the sunset.

† stared at you.

We both were admiring the most beautiful things.

I had the better view.

world peace

I loved her so much I forgot what hating myself felt like.

Membership.

Spending time with you is like having finger print access to heaven.

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There's always something to live for.

#sixwordstories

a good place

do you even lift, bro

Emptiness is the heaviest thing I've carried.

enough time

I would get over you and move on in time.

I just don't have enough time to do it.

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a wise man Will teach you There is a moment one should learn that being selfish is not the same as being self-full.

Fill your own cup first.

That moment, was worth the risk.

#sixwordstories

Excerpt from pain'

Turns out, thought pain was just mine.

But she's been around, everyone I know has had her sometime soon or ago.

I thought I was unique, but all she ever wanted to do was make me weak...

Now I am best friends with letting go, I have stopped visiting yesterday and postponed my trip to tomorrow.

My address is today and the time is now.

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Of course

She wasn't afraid of being burned; She was the flame.

She will set the world on fire with the light in her heart and I will always feel her warmth.

Irresponsible arrows

Fuck Cupid, stop using me as target practice.

be better

I never tried to keep you I never stopped you from going I knew you deserved better and now that you're gone maybe I I should've been better.

Deliberate

Practice makes permanent not perfect.

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like breathing

When did you become SO necessary?

#SixWordStories

wish you did

You did not break my heart, I wish you did.

I broke my own heart in believing you.

Wrong order

Everything has a beginning middle And end.

Not always In that order.

I met her At her start She met me At my end.

I told her, I loved her P hoped, at least She'd pretend.

The world knows how much I adored her We just met In the wrong order

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already gone (excerpt)

For weeks he was afraid he may leave, then he was afraid that he wouldn't.

There were so many things he could have become.

But he will remain,

made up of possibilities, for he was already gone.

Words, lasting longer than people.

sometimes

Sometimes, when they say Always.

They mean it.

Sometimes.

traveller

- am a tourist, not of places, but of hearts and memories.

You are my favorite destination.

To memories of you I'll always return.

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Forget me not.

It is often said that a person dies twice; once when they breathe their last, and once when they are remembered for the last time.

how to love

Let him see how I love you, He should know how to do it right.

loves twin

You look a lot like love.

#SixWordStories

Time flies when you're having fun.

I miss her, and the hands on my clock have arthritis.

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Escape?

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Why couldn't he move on? He saw her every time the sun set.

shots fired

I was her favorite hit man.

Hell bent on assassinating every moment she didn't feel beautiful.

I wake up at night with my arms wrapped around your absence.

teacher

If I know anything about love, it's because of you.

bombshell

You see this? Right here? This is an old American bombshell You may want to hold it But be careful not to hurt yourself

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You see her? Over there? She's a young American bombshell You may want to hold her But be careful not to hurt yourself.

now I understand

Today, as I sat outside, all bright and sunny, ~ saw a bee drown, in honey.

I get it

If I wrote the news:

Piano maker finds misplaced keys

#fakenews

essential

Your happiness is essential to me.

#SixWordStories

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prison break

I lived with my heart in a cage.

You smiled and suddenly I was free.

Many loved.

The beauty of a sunrise has never diminished the beauty of a sunset so to with one love over another.

warned

I want to

tell the world about you.

They should be warned.

On loving and being loved.

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There is a difference between loving and being loved.

To love is to plant a tree knowing you may never enjoy it's shade.

But it grew and nothing else mattered.

If I wrote the news:

Rapping klepto steals the show

#fakenews

wrong number

I let my phone ring to silence - am not the one you're looking for Although you have the right number ~ am not the right one anymore

blink

You cannot kill a monster unless you're willing to see it in the mirror.

Today saw my reflection blink.

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You could hate me more.

Who needs enemies when I have myself.

permanent ink

We loved in permanent ink and called our flaws art;

even our mistakes were beautiful.

Rechargedl

I looked to her for definitions to words like beauty, kindness, love.

lies we hope for

If love is blind then out of sight is surely not out of mind.

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warrior

Love, do not be a worrier.

You are a warrior.

Rest, but never quit.

Loving you

felt like the only thing I was ever good at.

right answer

She was the right answer I never needed to know the question

how to say goodbye

It's so hard to leave when you haven't said goodbye.

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There's only one way I'd accept.

Say it like you're coming back.

worth it

Sadness is the price we pay for smiling every once in a while.

couldn 't you love

My love for you grew upward like a tree Under their branches you found shade winter

But in my

you left me And - hoped your love wouldn't fade.

In the cold you thought my branches Were there to help your fire start And instead of saying you loved me You put a chainsaw through my heart.

Six Word Stories

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(L)earned

Everything you're going through is preparing you for what you've asked for.

You'll get what you've earned from what you've learned.

truth or dare

How dare you show me everything that I'll be missing.

If I wrote the news:

Promising artist draws attention.

#fakenews

If I wrote the news:

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Fruit farmer grows a pear

#fakenews

#SixWordStories

Would you stay? Would you leave?

These three things can heal anything: music, the ocean, the stars.

Her words were music.

Her smile like waves.

Her eyes were stars.

She healed me.

hold my hand

I could conquer the world with one hand; if you held the other.

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and I'll be there until the last

You came this far,

You've gone through so much.

I can't say you can handle everything.

But you will handle everything except the last thing.

notice me

Even stars hope you'll notice them

#SixWordStories

bad pickup line

I heard you're into bad guys, I'm bad at everything.

sunset

You and the sun have more in common

than you think.

Only you and the sun could make leaving look So beautiful.

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being

When you truly love someone.

You love a a being.

No matter what they're doing.

love in the dark

It was never the way she looked it was never love at first sight it was how she was, her very being I fell in love with my eyes closed.

If I wrote the news:

Pessimist and optimist finish their drinks.

#fakenews

If I could I would erase every bit of me from your mind.

You won't remember ever* loving me.

You won't remember why you ever stopped.

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masks

7 billion people.

14 billion faces.

no before

I love you better than I've ever loved before.

In fact, I doubt, if I've ever loved before.

#mentalhealth

I traded my mind to save my soul.

First.

Nice guys Last message.

Last goodnight.

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Last kiss.

Last love.

finish last, eh?

breakdown

Sadness isn't a sickness but I think I'm coming down.

Excerpt from pain'

am a hooker for pain...

I strip tease insanity and lap dance to sadness

pole dance for an audience of fear and anxiety

I give an erection to suicidal thoughts because life is hard.

But through the difficulties I give head to failure and I promise a happy ending.

plural

Maybe the heart is meant to shatter into pieces so many because we were never meant to love in the

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singular

suffocate

He inhabited their lives like air, mostly unnoticed but there in need, They left him, then wondered why it suddenly became harder to breathe

cruel teacher

Time is a cruel teacher.

I have been knowingly taunting the reaper to take a free scythe in my direction and now that I've become a finalist in the race of life, I want more time.

let me love you

I am a writer let me love you;

I'll make you immortal.

I am an over-thinker let me love you;

I've already thought of every reason not to.

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I am me let me love you;

I do not know how not to.

I love you.

I find myself pickpocketing my own mind for reasons just to talk to you.

Call it broken Call it wretched Call it unfinished and give it my name.

gasping

You were a breath of fresh air when all knew was suffocation.

as much as you

One day, if

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I'm lucky, I'll love myself as much as I love you.

autobiography

Slips, trips, and loves.

be the light

To lose everything and still have a tender heart is to be the light in an oft too dark world.

gods playlist

I don't know much but I I do know this: If there is a God, He is listening to Her heartbeat on His favorite playlist.

reason to leave

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The only reason I would ever leave Is SO that I I may once again arrive Because it's only ever been with you That I've ever truly felt alive

come as you are

When she finds you and she will find you.

Love her where she is.

You exist; therefore, I love you.

#sixwordstories

Sometimes I say never.

I will never give up on you.

but never in the dark

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We loved like the sun and the moon.

Always missing each other.

would you love me?

When is a door not a door? When it's ajar (a jar).

When is a monster a monster? When you love it.

- don't know, when? You're such an idiot.

Another silly joke?

When you love it.

Hold'em

You held me only because your hands were empty.

healing

When every problem looks like a page I do my best impression of a pen and put ink to paper and write

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about her.

This is how I heal.

waving

My love for you is like waves of the ocean.

Infinite and flowing.

Always returning to kiss the shore no matter how many

times

it was sent away.

like the waves,

love also tastes of tears.

shattered dust

I do not want to leave this world without a broken heart and in one piece.

I'd like to leave so full of love and SO very very shattered that I become like dust;

insignificant and everywhere.

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She's music in a world still learning speak.

That's why words aren't enough to describe her.

patient pain patient.

Very few of the most important things have been learned without pain.

Be patient.

Sometime, this pain will be useful to you.

visa

At least love doesn't require visas.

#SixWordStories

If she ever doubted herself I wanted to be her most reliable hitman hell bent on Assassinating her uncertainty.

Because certainly, she's heaven sent.

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"Wrong order" by Leo Everything has a beginning

middle

And end.

Not always In that order.

I met her

At her start She met me At my end.

told her, loved her

hoped, at least She'd pretend.

The world knows how much I adored her We just met In the wrong order

no returns, refunds, or exchanges.

Stop.

Giving.

Me.

My.

Heart.

Back.

It's Yours.

Always.

hope

I hope you find love.

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I hope you find someone you love just as I love you.

But most hope is you never have to know what it's like if they don't love you too.

I hope that for you.

Shooting star, missed target.

If I were a star.

I'd fall with the only hope that you'd make a wish on me.

Even as a star, falling for is natural.

no wound

I searched my body for a wound.

How can someone hurt so much and not bleed?

make sense, not war

She understood me; and I wanted to spend all night making sweet sense to her.

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haunting questions

What if you've already experienced your best day, your last good day.

What if you haven't?

groot

Groot.

Groot? Groot, Groot.

Groot... Groot!

#SixWordStories

the final knife

Pull of the bandaid, it's time to say what you never did:

"Goodbye".

Few pains are greater than the pain of being hurt by the one you shared your pains with.

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pictures

Pictures were the only way For me to treasure what I knew The memories in them never change When the people in them do.

goosebumps

Skin, tells you

how to touch it if you listen.

And though love is blind, I read her goosebumps like Braille.

Friends, listen closely, Unravel your soul.

Crawl out of your insecurities.

Keep holding on to love.

Yesterday is gone.

Only the present remains.

Understand this, you'll be free.

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real monsters

I'm not afraid of the monsters that live beneathe my bed - only fear the ones that live inside my head.

not running away

P am not running away, I am running towards, before it all fades away.

When a nerd loves you

If I could I'd live with you above the clouds so nothing could ever rain on our parade.

(and times slower the higher the altitude)

My superpower.

When you feel lost Come to me.

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Finding you is my only superpower.

She was the dictionary I used to look up the definitions for words like: "beauty, kindness, perfection, love".

l e o gopal

A good life

Every time you're presented with a perfect moment like a beautiful day, good waves or a great

conversation - cease it.

A good life is made up of many of these moments, get as many of them as you can.

shortest poem.

Stay.

lost and found

Losing myself in you felt a lot like being found.

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hold it against me

I want you to be the something I did wrong.

I want you to hold it against me.

survive

I don't care if I survive you.

You are the only time I've ever felt alive.

promises

You'll never have to doubt that you are loved.

You have my word.

You have all my words.

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future me

In the future, there is a version of me that is smiling, and who is thankful that - I never gave up.

small steps to the sun To be the light in an often too dark world; that is a victory.

loud skin

Love is blind so I read her goosebumps like Braille.

empty hand

Some will take until you've nothing left then hold a grudge against your hand for being empty.

still

I'll still write you love poems you'll never read.

You'll still have hands that will never hold me.

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no escape

I have no past tense to "love".

I love you. I'll always love you.

If you leave, there is no escape for me except my last breath.

The professional

Every time someone says goodbye You learn a little bit about yourself

compass

My heart was a compass that always pointed to her.

no immunity.

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You forget, the devil himself sometimes goes through hell.

Between enough

For me, was too much.

For you, was too little.

taste of happiness

She smiled as she kissed me.

I now know what happiness tastes like.

fortune cookie

You treated me like a fortune cookie that you broke to learn what you already knew: I love you.

Tell me about her.

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She is summer.

Her smile is the 9am sunlight on a Cape Town morning.

jealous

Even the morning gets jealous whenever you wake at noon

bullet

A single bullet.

A lifetime supply.

#SixWordStories

you're missed

I may never say it, my smile may tell you otherwise.

But never wonder if my heart misses you.

It does. It does. It does.

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Bipolar

Unrequited self love: I love myself But I don't love myself Back

things I've learned

She taught me to be the man She already believed me to be.

Notice period

So many moments taken for granted hinking I'd have so many

more.

Wishes

I love you.

(I miss you loving me too)

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7 billion smiles and few have I sought with such relentlessness as I have yours.

My darling,

Promise me this:

Never use a mirror to measure your worth.

Rather, all the lives made better, simply by you being on this earth.

What is love...

Qualities of loving: Love has no expectation.

Love has no judgement.

Love is freedom.

Love is independent.

Love is limitless.

Love is unconditional.

Love is always.

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and you shouldn't

Loving her was like loving the sun itself; you don't expect a sunset to admire you back.

How to love

give One does not 'fall' nor does one 'rive' love. One must

'be' love, to love another is to invite them in your overflowing of love and Experience being love Together.

star struck

The darker it gets.

The brighter the stars.

love life

She was the love of my life By which, I mean, she loved my life and taught me how to love it too.

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sound of regret

You may think that i am One of the strongest men you've met But my ears are still ringing From the sound of all I regret

both of us

How did you lose me? you never let me love both of us at the same time.

Live now

Postponement is the greatest waste of life.

Maybe love...

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Maybe love is there for a bit.

Maybe love is there for all of it.

Maybe love stays.

Maybe love can't.

Maybe love shouldn't.

savings

She saved me and by doing so conferred a value on my life It's a currency I do not know how to spend.

mercy

It is quite merciful that pain is impossible to describe from memory.

a litle of your time

Would you spend spend the rest of my life with me?

promise not to take up too much of your time.

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drowning

He did not mean to drown.

He was to swim until he sank, It was not quite the same thing.

Sunset

Like the sun: I wish to burn bright and set beautifully too.

Peaces

I've given you all of my heart Though it' not quite all in one piece If you promise to keep every part Maybe then I'll Rest In Peace

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going to heaven

I saw her smile and realized that heaven is not a place you have to die to get to

deserve

You deserve SO much love.

Never stay anywhere that you're made to feel less love than you deserve.

sun knows

My love do not be surprised if you hear the setting sun whisper your name, He knows, I told him you're the one.

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do you even think of me?

Some days I wake up to the beautiful sunshine and chirping birds.

Other days I miss you sadly sing your name.

and the birds

always be you

I'll always treat you right.

I'll always be a gentlemen.

I'll still open the door for you even if it's for you to leave me.

obvious

want to know who I love?

Never forgiven.

I will never forgive So never apologize Forgiveness is of

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judgement, Judgment is not love.

I love you.

something like story

Her name was a writers dream.

#SixWordStories

mirror man

Give me fire.

Give me sand.

I will show you beauty.

CO-AUTHOR

Look how important you've become.

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mirror

How do we organize life without death to define it?

It is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

important

3 Important thingsa those who stayed; those who waited; those who were there for you you didn't even have yourself.

when

I'm Sorry

Said the knife to the wound

Mean enough

(79)

You might wonder why he does this Why he writes of people he once knew But he hopes that one day he might mean enough For someone to write about him too

Gifted flowers

I sent her flowers.

Not for her benefit, but for theirs.

I wanted the flowers to spend their last days with someone beautiful.

It's what would've wanted too.

I am lost; Take me home.

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can you tell?

Love is like a heaven You can only reach through Hell I love you better than I ever loved I wonder if you can

(80)

tell?

would you lay beside me

To the world you're just one person To this person you are the world Would you feel safe and lay beside me Our bodies lovingly curled

embrace

When she hugged me, I felt like Lucifer being embraced by God.

I, so unworthy.

She, so divine.

bombshell

You see this? This is an old America bombshell.

(81)

You may want to hold it, but be-careful not to hurt yourself.

You see her? She's a young American bombshell.

You may want to hold her, but becareful not to hurt yourself.

come as you are

- traveled and read, and - saw it all not as it was but as I am.

Because we can 't not

Just as one loves unconditionally, without reason

so too will one not have a reason for loving - we do not control who we love, we simply love those we do.

what doesn't kill you

In that awkward space of not knowing whether this is killing me or making me stronger.

(82)

Like rain, I fell for you.

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shatter cure

You fixed me by breaking me in all the right ways

all heart

Open minded.

Empty handed.

Full hearted.

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definition of hell

Hell: the moment when the person you are meets the person you could've been.

(83)

sanctuary

How did you lose me? you felt trapped

another looked at your prison and saw it as a refuge why would someone choose to be a jail when they could be a sanctuary?

stuntman

I wanted to be her ex-boyfriends stuntmans I want to treat her the way they never had the courage to.

pleasant futility

What's the point being happy now if we're just going to be sad later?

Well, because, we're going to be sad later.

happily _ever.after_

(84)

How grateful am that the end of my story is not the end of yours.

do you still read my loneliness?

Poetry is often a refuge for the lonely.

After all, so much is written because the writer had no one to talk to.

deserve more

Everything I feel for you I should have never let you see Because you deserve so much Than a broken guy like me.

more

ribcage

God knew hearts couldn't be trusted he had the good sense to put them in cages

(85)

smoke

Your blindness to my downfall Has gone too far to be joke As I stand burning in front of you And you ask ifI smell smoke.

what's the diff?

If I wanted to write about love; I'd just be writing about you.

selfish

You are perfect You are iridescent

You made everything you looked at beautiful.

How selfish am I that I wanted you to look at me too.

(86)

you gave me courage

I wish I never met you I was much better of as a coward.

Spin.

There is no key to my heart.

It' a revolving door.

Better fears

The fear of not loving you exceeded the fear of being hurt The fear of doing nothing exceeded the fear of doing it badly.

So I loved as best I could.

fading

I cannot properly speak if there is no one who would understand.

Do I even exist if you do not acknowledge my

(87)

existence? Am I even alive if I am not loved?

If I wrote the news:

Chicken crosses the road, finds greener grass

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what I would do

If I ever see you without a smile like the world has taken your spark I would set my own heart on fire if that would keep you from the dark.

haunting

Oh, the memories we could've made.

(88)

you gave me courage - must have a heart like a TARDIS to love her as much as do.

It's bigger on the inside.

POLICE SALE BOX

"I love you more"

is a fight you rarely want to win.

a note to say goodbye

- do hope you'll find someone Who'll make up for all I I lack Because I left a note to say goodbye I won't be coming back.

so much more, go get it.

Accept only that which is worthy of you.

It's only dust that settles.

Not you.

(89)

I hear you in every song.

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silver lining sunny days

Even the sadness of separation from you is a beautiful thing to behold

Villian

I lived long enough to become the villain I so fear.

Meloncholy

Sometimes we just need to sit, alone or together, and let the wait of being human be felt.

We are, after all, all in this together.

(90)

If I wrote the news:

Fake news headlines

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solitude

Table for two?

Table for one.

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9 lessons for boys to manhóod

1. She's your equal.

2. She's someone's daughter or sister.

3. Never try to Change her - you can't improve perfection.

4. She always comes first always.

5. Kill her insecurities.

6. Be her friend.

7.Small things do count. Open that door! 8. Be a gentlemen - chivalry is not dead.

9. Never ever raise your hand or voice - raise your thoughts and love.

(91)

I wouldn't fight.

I will always respect you.

I will never fight for you.

- can't do both.

If you want to go I will respect you.

I am a writer, let me love you;

I will make you immortal.* H am an overthinker, let me love you;

I've already thought of every reason not to.

I am me,

let me love you;

I don't know how not to.

Let m e love you .

A love like mine

You broke my heart.

You broke your promise.

Then why do you still love me? Why are you still there for me? Why?

Do you think I care for you so little that that would make any difference?

(92)

I don't deserve a love like yours.

Oh darling, a love like mine, is exactly what you deserve.

rainy day

I would like to harvest the sunshine in your smiles and save it for a rainy day.

thunder and rain

Sometimes I'm the storm Other times I am the sanctuary On the hardest days - am both.

a tree fell

If a heart breaks and there is no one around to save it does it make

a sound?

(93)

morn 'n sunshine

falling in love with you was a lot like falling awake.

subtext

FOREVER

many ways to say I love you

If you're tired of waiting for those three words to escape my throat all I can say is that it's cold outside please, don't forget your coat

We are happy with love being infinite in depth.

"I love you so deeply"

Why then can love not be infinite in breadth? To love deeply and widely.

Love for one in no way diminishes the love for another.

(94)

If I wrote the news:

Homework eating dog passes test.

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overdose

She was my dealer I was running outta time Her smile was poetry give me another line.

notes on loving

It was strange how he loved her.

As if loving her was all that mattered.

She didn't even need to love him too.

Living dyingly

I'm dying I realized others are just doing it in slow motion.

(95)

Everybody dies whilst not all may have lived.

scarring the sun

the light from her smile left scars upon the sun.

I wish I could point at the sunset and say I wrote that for you.

Her linguist

She was poetry in a world still learning the alphabet.

Eyes wide shut

I have lived too long.

- have seen too much.

Now, my eyes are wide shut.

For the future is all I will touch.

(96)

native tongue

English was my second language Loving her was my first.

Silent letters

HOPE

I wanted hope.

Iridescent Sunset Rising while fallingdown