I always thought love was going to be sweet, but when you arrived I discovered that love was never sweet it was always savoury, tears are still salty, they don't turn into rose water even when they're brought by joy, and clouds don't turn into cotton candy, you just become happier, you become more at peace, you can taste the sweetness of life and the savoury of it too with no bitterness and that's why I always kiss you, because you taste better than candy, you taste like love.

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Poetry"Everyone's playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don't want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousa...