Sometimes at night when the moon is almost full and my hands go numb from writing, I cleanse myself of her poisoned love. I welcome the water, the inevitability of death and embrace the long painful road out of love.

A.P. Sweet
About This Quote

Failure to give up on a relationship can lead to addiction. In this poem, the speaker is admitting he has fallen in love with someone who was no good for him and has been trying to get out of the relationship. He says he welcomes death and welcomes the long painful road out of love.

Source: Dead, But Dreaming

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  2. I wrote because of their inability to nurture me. I wrote to conceal the truth that life was filled with pain and that true beauty could only come from that pain. I wrote to simply disguise that pain.

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