Underneath the bridge of night,
burns an ocean of longing for you
I can't give in
For it will turn everything into ashes
I can't keep out
For it will do the same to my heart.
Some people reach places inside you that even your own thoughts have never visited. And somehow, without ever belonging to you, they become part of everything you are. That is the strange intimacy of the soul, how someone can live beneath your skin without ever touching it
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