t h e s t a y  

if only you understood the lashes of darkening gray on the crumbling walls of my mind and the blues and reds it has taken to come so far. if only you knew how much residual pink there is under my tongue, like medicine long forgotten just for show. if only you’d stop looking past me and instead, really see the scarring white glistening on this skin, like ghosts of survivors, of wars fought for too long. 


four year anniversary

“she’s dead inside, so I lay flowers at the grave of her heart.”


so what if I miss you right



The Knowing of the Perfect Sounds and Colours that I’ve found in you


The Forgotten


not mine to have


If you keep playing it safe, you’ll never know who you are. I know who you are, and I love who you are. Why don’t you trust me?
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
(via wordsnquotes)

(via wordsnquotes)


(via ambiguities)


What if we have it wrong?
What if heaven is chaos
and hell is harmony?
Would we finally learn
how to love this anarchy
we call our souls?
Nikita Gill (via meanwhilepoetry)

(via meanwhilepoetry)