7 Quotes by Ruth Boukhari

My never-ending pursuit of pain-avoidanceultimately leadsto replacing one hurt with another.Unruly pleasureleads to bitter rage.And these lessons I cannot learnfrom beloveds who becomeso cavalier.

But I feel these chains tightenas I disappear in another disease of the heart,a love that should never be and will never beand could never be, and yet that familiar shiverchases my skin and my eyes see only him.

I willed that star to fallso you would swallow itand I will recognise youwith your glowing bellyand declare that you are mine.

Look at the stars,look at the moon streaked in the water,look at the Picasso face in the skythat breathes the words of Lorca on the cheeksof the crossed ones who long to touch,too confused to wander.

Along my lips my blood does weepas I mourn the love that kissed me deep,’twas not enough to make my heart melt—he has to use it to gloss his lips like diamonds,diamonds they were when they kissed minewounding lacerations and slices the like.But I don’t shine; I don’t speakand see this heart? It no longer beats.

So easily I trustletting my petals drop,leaving me so vulnerableand you so deplorable,and still I love and loveand love…

Undeadvampire isnot evil, just hungryfor a lover with brown curls who willnot die.