lifetime ✰ by ben&ben

• (was there a lifetime waiting for us in a world where i was yours? was it the wrong time, what if we tried giving in a little more? i'd spend a lifetime waiting in vain just to go back to the way we were before.)
• (and the sight of you, oh, you were a good dream.)

literature lovers ✰ by jose vanders

• (all of the books on my shelf are unread. i keep them there, so that they will impress when you come to stay.)

fever ✰ by vancouver sleep clinic

• (if this is a war that you are fighting, i want to be on the frontline. with swing...

santosh kalwar ✰

• "if i can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. if i can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile."

fisher amelie ✰

• "one day, you and i are gonna wake up and be alright. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but one day. one day. i promise you."

• crush; richard siken's selected poems
  • seaside improvisation — [i take off my hands and i give them to you but you don't wan't that, so i take them back]
  • a primer for the small weird loves — [he hits you and he hits you and he hits you. desire driving his hands right into your body. hush, my sweet. these tornadoes are for you. you wanted to think of yourself as someone who did these kinds of things.you wanted to be in love and he happened to get in the way]
  • snow and dirty rain — [i’m thinking my plant, his chair, the ashtray that we bought together. i’m thinking this is where we live. when we were little we made houses out of cardboard boxes. we can do anything. it’s not because our hearts are large, they’re not, it’s what we struggle with. the attempt to say come over. bring your friends. it’s a potluck, i’m making pork chops, i’m making those long noodles you love so much]...

✰ landscape with a blur of conquerors :: by richard siken

• the conqueror suits up and takes the field, his horse already painted beneath him. what do you do with a man like that?

✰ i had you :: by lang leav

• last night i had a dream that felt like a memory. a glimpse of what could have been. crossed signals from another life. where instead of all this, i had you. and life was exquisitely simple. and we were desperately happy.