I search for you on crowded subway trains. I search out of this desperate longing to see you again... Its been almost 2 years since I last heard your voice. It's been almost 2 years since I last followed the spiral in your beard on your cheek with my finger and then kissed it. I always loved you with a beard. And you grew it for me even though you knew she would find it odd...
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image of artwork by Tracey Emin
Loving Kindness
Today marks your birthday, and also marks one year since She posted on your facebook wall while at your birthday party. Today marks one year and three weeks since we broke up. And one year and six weeks since I found Her hair on the carpet in the bedroom, on your side of the bed. Today marks one year and three months since I became suspicious.
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"You realize, of course, that we can never be friends."
All it took was one casual swipe on one casual app and now I can’t imagine my life without him in it
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There must be something more than love, to make love last.
What is the deeper thing that underlies this whole ‘love thing’ and keeps people together? 'Love' seems too general, too overused, it seems too broken a term and too broken a place to put ‘everlasting’. There must be a thing that is more than just love, to make love last.
Read MoreWhiskey Again
You’ve gone now,
But these remnant thoughts of you add burden.
And it gets heavier every day.
You have a piece of me now,
One I never meant to leave.
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These tears are new, what did you do?
It’s me who is the one who gets to run away.
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Distraction and whiskey, and whiskey again.
Whiskey only numbs the pain for so long.
But the night always ends, as we hope for the day.