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His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.

— Warsan Shire

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I wrote the poem for them, for my family and for anyone who has experienced or lived around grief and trauma in that way.

My poems come to me in images, like film. I can see it very clearly and then this overwhelming urge to write out best what I just saw comes over me…

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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