Love

Let's keep the Love Month burning with Love, one more time.

 

 

"See, the 17 year old girl in me fell in love with your silent eyes.

I imagine they looked the same when you were convinced of your own brokenness.

I imagine your lashes wrote anthologies every time they kissed your cheeks;

maybe that's why I heard a century of voices in your quiet.

Every unspoken part of you sang symphonies when we touched

and I found myself wanting to be a musician all over again."

- Aman Batra, "When The Timing Isn't Right, Neither Is The Man"

 

"You are a horse running alone

and he tries to tame you

compares you to an impossible

highway

to a burning house

says you are blinding him

that he could never leave you

forget you

want anything but you

you dizzy him, you are unbearable

every woman before or after you

is doused in your name."

- Warsan Shire, "For Women Who Are Difficult To Love"

 

"I kiss temporary lips with permanence

Hoping that I can train them to stay

I love temporary people with permanence

Hoping that I can train them not to leave

And when they do

I claim to have seen it coming

I am incapable of forgetting

A scrapbook memory of skin and heartbeat

Of touch and moments

I know not to look directly into eyes

For they can be blinding

And I still

Do it anyway."

- Danielle Shorr, "I Will Regret This In The Morning"

 

 

A few chosen literary from here.