I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.

If anyone else were to kiss me, all they would taste is your name.

My battered heart will always be where the ocean meets the sand, I will break over and over Every day. That is the best and worst part of me.

I’m scared you will realize I’m just bones and questions and leave me for something solid.

I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.

All this time I drank you like the cure when maybe you were the poison.

You never need to apologize for how you chose to survive.

Apologies do not make good bandages.

Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet.

Every Time a Man YellsI am seven years old againand he is packing that suitcaseonce more.Picking me up by the neck,teaching me obedience.To be soft,like a belly of a fishexposed to a knife.