“~We're starting to feel we stayed together out of fear of dying alone i've been slipping through the years my old clothes dont fit like they once did so they hang like ghosts of the people i've been its like my heart cant take my fall in love everyday and I feel like a fool I have to face the truth that no one could ever look at me like you do like I'm something worth holding on to thes times I think of leaving but its something I'll never do cause you can do better than me but I cant do better than you I am but a dying rose. once blossoming and fragent, now wilted and sour from this dishelved garden that once hope. Where, sometime ago. I hid within the tightly folded sanctuary of my bloom the very heart of me nothing could contain the desire to flourish but this garden is cruel it swarms with malice and misgiving far beyonce the capacity of my roots wrenching and gnawing away forbidding any hope or beauty its infection has all but consumed the brillance within leaving me withered to watch as my now blackened petals fall to the floor. < 3”
![“I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying…” quote by Aaron Brookner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/339/aaron-brookner-54373_aids_i-have-a-feeling-a-lot-of-artists-work-g_373194.jpg)
