• I’m lonely so I do lonely things.
• Loving you was like going to war, I never came back the same.
• You hate women, just like your father and his father, so it runs in your blood.
• I was wandering the derelict car park of your heart looking for a ride home.
• You’re a ghost town I’m too patriotic to leave.
• I stay because you’re the beginning of the dream I want to remember.
• I didn’t call him back because he likes his girls voiceless.
• It’s not that he’s wants to be a liar, it’s just that he doesn’t know the truth.
• I couldn’t love you, you were a small war.
• We covered the smell of loss with jokes.
• I didn’t want to fail at love like our parents.
• You made the nomad in me build a house and stay.
• I’m not a dog.
• We were trying to prove our blood wrong.
• I was still lonely so I did even lonelier things.
• Yes, I’m insecure, but so was my mother and her mother.
• No, he loves me he just makes me cry a lot.
• He knows all of my secrets and still wants to kiss me.
• You were too cruel to love for a long time.
• It just didn’t work out.
• My dad walked out one afternoon and never came back.
• I can’t sleep because I can still taste him in my mouth.
• I cut him out at the root , he was my favourite tree, rotting, threatening the foundations of my home.
• The women in my family die waiting.
• Because I didn’t want to die waiting for you.
• I had to leave, I felt lonely when he held me.
• You’re the song I rewind until I know all the words and I feel sick.
• He sent me a text that said ‘I love you so bad’
• His heart wasn’t as beautiful as his smile.
• We emotionally manipulated one another until we thought it was love.
• Forgive me, I was lonely so I chose you.
• I’m a lover without a lover
• I’m lovely and lonely.
• I belong deeply to myself.

― warsan shire, “34 excuses for why we failed at love”