the terror of one person

aching in one place

alone

untouched

unspoken to

watering a plant.

–Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog From Hell

 

those who escape hell

however

never talk about

it

and nothing much

bothers them

after that.

–Charles Bukowski

 

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

–CB

 

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

–CB