01UndatedRan out of things to say, metaphors for you. Why the ocean’s clear instead of blue, why mountains in the distance had reminded me of you.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
02UndatedThe beauty was nothing made sense. We were complex. We were intricate. We were designed with flaws which seemed to make everything perfect. But the defining word is seem. We don’t see what’s in front of us until it’s away from us. Until it’s behind us. Until it doesn’t bother us. Sometimes things aren’t perfect, yet they appear to be. Sometimes life doesn’t make sense until it does. But it always does.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
03UndatedWe love certain people until death. We love others until we don’t. And sometimes we never fell in love in the first place. Falling in love isn’t necessary. Building character, life experience, development, and self-love: those are important. People get lost in the idea of affection for another person that they completely disregard themselves. That’s dangerous. Life isn’t about building something with someone. Life is about building something for yourself, but if someone comes along and they align, you share it with them.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
06UndatedYou were a rhyme who mattered, a being who slipped all too often.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
07UndatedNot every relationship is meant to last. Some are there to create an impact on your life. Relationships that last three months are just as important as ones that last a lifetime.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
08UndatedI stopped writing in a way they would understand because it wasn’t for them or even him. It was for I to understand, for I to make sense, and for I to let go of it.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
09UndatedLife isn’t about building something with someone else. It’s about building something for a cause greater than yourself, but if someone comes along and they’re worthy enough, we let them build with us.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
10Undatedrunning with sharp knivesnever got me so farbut running with youseemed lovelyDominic Riccitello / quote ↗
11UndatedI loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creases and creases had secrets.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
13UndatedThe thing with breaking up is they leave, but the memories stay.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
14UndatedYou’re not supposed to be in a relationship because it’s comfortable, it’s supposed to be because they make you a better person.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
15UndatedSilence is only awkward if one cannot feel a connection with the other.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
16UndatedI went into the new year loving myself in different ways, in a different possibility. It was then that I understood things I hadn’t. It was then that I understood people I hadn’t. We work in ways where sometimes we don’t align because our intersections lead us elsewhere. We find ourselves in rapids which lead to lightning, in beds that leave us homesick. We lust after the impetuous, in hopelessness, and sometimes in the reactive. We like things and people who are bad for us and that’s fine. It’s fine because it’s life. It happens. They exist. We exist. We all exist together in this world where nothing seems to make sense. Where everything is nothing but imaginary because it’s what we imagine it to be. Reality exists and it’s there, but life is what you make it. Your actions ask for it. How you exist is how you exist.We take every new year and give it a theme because we’re scared of how it could be. You change in the moment, not by years. You be to become and becoming is something which frightens people. Lead by example instead of letting the example lead you. Take this new year and find yourself in people who question it because questioning is how you gain from it.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
18UndatedWhen you know, you know and it flows in your mind like waves. Coming forward as it pulls with the tide. It brings anxiety, terror, and it’s beyond anything plausible.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
19UndatedDon’t break my heart. Crush it. Destroy it. Let me wallow it until I feel hollow in it. I’ll bash in the pain. I’ll scream your name and then one day I suddenly won’t.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
20UndatedI loved you with different words than you knew and that seemed to scare you.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
22UndatedI love him. So much. To the point where you won’t understand. You don’t get it because I don’t get it. It’s there. It exists. It flows. It moves like rapids through my veins. Comes with bursts and occasionally fades with the day, but it’s always there. And when you find love like that, you don’t want to give it up. But sometimes you have to and sometimes you have to give it to someone else. That’s the hard part.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
24UndatedI loved him to death. Then I came to realization with how arrogant he was and instead of falling out of love, I fell harder. Every passing day I fell a little harder, a little faster, and a little sadder. I became anxious, obsessive, hurt, and sad. But one morning I awoke to realize I fell out of it. I loved him. I still do. But I was in love with him until the death of the relationship. Now I just love him. From afar. From the knowledge. From the happiness an individual gave me.Dominic Riccitello / quote ↗
