It's easy to hide behind the masks of..

I am sad

Wreath me in smiles

It's easy to sink lower and lower into the drinking pool to soothe your raw, bleeding wounds. they told you salt water would help

What does it mean to love, when you have only understood betrayal

Their love is a cage

simultaneously confining and defining

your heart 

I want to be free to love you the only way I know how

in bits and pieces, not at all and then all at once, the force of a wave washing over you at midnight

I know you think I'm cold because I cut you off
but I did what I had to do to cut ME off
Our relationship brought out the worst in me
and I was tired of her
Happiness is second to the best
love is second to success

Clothes shopping?

The sexiest thing a woman can wear? 

Confidence.

(And if that intimidates him or turns him off then fuck him, he's scared by a real independent woman.)

You're not breaking up with him.

You're breaking up with your bad habits, your misgivings, your worries, your fears

You're breaking up with who you were when you were with him.

Are you just another heart that I will break?

don't go there. The last thing you should do right now is doubt yourself. Do you have a problem? Who is it a problem to?
I did what I thought was right, who is anyone to judge?

I don't promise that you'll love me and I don't promise that I will always make you happy. I don't promise that I won't disappoint you. I don't promise that I won't hurt you or make you sad.
But I promise that I will always accept you, I will never judge you, that I will support you and listen to you and care about you. I will always treat you with consideration and respect. I promise to always be interested in what you say. Because I love you.

I won't do everything in my power to make you happy. I won't do everything in my power to make sure you know that I love you. You either believe me or you don't. You either accept me or you don't.

I have to be strong in myself, in who I am. If I'm afraid that I'll hurt you then that means I don't trust you. And if I do hurt you, we weren't meant to be. If I trigger you, we weren't meant to be. Don't want something so blindly that you give yourself away for it. Know your worth

I understand relationships
but I don't understand love

I'm angry, angry at the world
and you're the only one who heard me
My love for chaos, my need for pain
my hatred of the world is still unchanged
I'm scared to go through this again with you
Tell me about the things I forgot or maybe never knew
about the sun and the trees, the mountains and the stars at night
that light up like I do when I see you