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There's a point where heartbreak stops being about one person and becomes something larger — a grief about the nature of love itself. Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, Frida Kahlo, Anna Akhmatova.
“My tears are the Tigris and Euphrates, flowing for the lost beloved.
“Everything is in the past, except the pain. That's always present.
“I was born disinherited... my country did not want me.
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
“Beloved, your absence is a desert, my heart a thirsty wanderer within.
“Home is where the heart breaks and is rebuilt again and again.
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
“How can joy visit a soul whose beloved is gone forever?
“Lately I've been feeling, lost in thought, consumed by fear.
“Love, that in gentle heart is quickly learned, seized him for the fair form that was taken from me.
“A heart full of sadness finds comfort in no worldly delight.
“Tears are the language of a soul in agony, beyond words, beyond reason.
“The beautiful one has fallen into the trap, She is finished!
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
“I wasn’t in love with her anymore, but I was still in love with the idea of her.
“I desired a white man. It was the only way to escape my blackness.
“The deepest loneliness is not found in solitude, but within a indifferent crowd.