i hope you still hear laughter in the snow. on nights like this, it is too easy to get lost out there in the terrible cold.
i kissed you and it felt
like the moments before a car crash,
this sudden clarity
swelling like a bruise inside me
as if my hands were not on your skin
but on the wheel and
i was not falling for you
but rather skidding out of control
and it wasn’t our future i was headed towards
but instead
a brick wall
i kissed you and in that moment i knew
that i’m gonna look back later
after the ambulance nights with too many loud noises and
trying to steer out of the way of a terrible end but only managing to make it last for longer than it should have
and after breaking our shaky hands trying to
stitch the other back together from so many pieces, after
waking up in the hospital sheets of each other’s bad dreams
one of these days i won’t be able to drive past your road without instinctively flinching
a quiet punch to the sternum, an impact my body remembers
with anger and sadness and homesickness and
one of these days i’ll be left with only the bill and a scream
trapped in my throat and you’ll swing by to pick up your sweatshirts and
seeing you again is gonna be like being torn open and
one of these days i’m gonna wake
with the taste of you and of blood
intermingling in my mouth
like your name is a windshield shard
i never spat out.
— When you take my hand, please, drive safely. // r.i.d (via inkskinned)
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read this on here today and i haven’t stopped thinking about this quote since (via tomriddl)
thank you so much for reading it and liking it!! next time please credit me with it instead of reposting it, though :)
if you are
the storm,
my love
i am the destruction
you leave on the shore.
— once kissed and no more // r.i.d (via inkskinned)
— (inkskinned)
