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this world is hard to get used to. it takes you by the hand
and shakes you by the shoulders
and never lets go even when you can feel your bones
shaking. cracking, creaking, but never breaking -
we are stronger than we were in the beginning, and we will be stronger
yet before we crumble.
we are fresh faces with old souls, wandering in the
light of a past turning towards obscurity;
but we have survived this long, my friend, we will survive
again - it's been four years since i lost myself
but now the stage crew's turning in
and i think the end is coming up damn fast.
we have fallen into roles, you and i, but that time is
over - we are grown even though we never
grew up, and it's time to move
on. we ran out of lines but not out of time, so remember -
all the world's a stage.
and shakes you by the shoulders
and never lets go even when you can feel your bones
shaking. cracking, creaking, but never breaking -
we are stronger than we were in the beginning, and we will be stronger
yet before we crumble.
we are fresh faces with old souls, wandering in the
light of a past turning towards obscurity;
but we have survived this long, my friend, we will survive
again - it's been four years since i lost myself
but now the stage crew's turning in
and i think the end is coming up damn fast.
we have fallen into roles, you and i, but that time is
over - we are grown even though we never
grew up, and it's time to move
on. we ran out of lines but not out of time, so remember -
all the world's a stage.
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but the stars are too loud to hear them
it's a summer night again. i think
it has been a million years since i lived
through a summer night.
everything is so much louder in summer,
the windows thrown wide and the whole world
shouting, echoing up from the street,
and that screaming aching space between the window pane
and my heart, where
the late scent of lilacs
burrowed, where your hands clawed at the glass
and i let you in
with the breeze and the laughing
cinquefoil faces.
where is the dull neglectable roar,
washed away in the sweet tides of everything blooming,
new colors crying out for the stars
to fall on their petals,
and lift them up,
and let them in
to the bleak brightness
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instructions on never falling out of love
invent countless scenarios where pieces
fall into places and you fall into
his arms.
rip your chest up with bitten nails,
scourge your insides with laser-sharp
self-homing
precision-guided missiles
of unending scrutiny:
what's missing, what's missing,
what's missing.
discard fictions, soft-spoken and faceless.
you've met the real deal
and he doesn't want you.
write songs, write
this poem,
write, sing, remember
old melodies
of the broken loves of your youth.
tell yourself every bit of pain that had
passed through you before
carved a perfect spot
for this love to fill.
tell yourself, you loved him before you met him.
what you've learnt to
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Patriot
driving through town, i saw him,
through misty,
bespectacled eyes
and
he saw me too. weary,
but enduring.
amidst the haze,
he conjured the fog of factory funnels,
half-built steel ships on the docks.
Cranes once lined the sky,
now they build banks and he calls it a tragedy.
in a puff of smoke,
he steals glass towers, replacing
them with redbrick
terraces. paints in monochrome
on the pastel-blue sky.
his city has two football clubs
and he hates one of them. his wife
hates the other but they both
breathe sea air and radio waves,
he holds her hand
through weddings
and funerals.
just how he remembers it,
the wind, the cold air as you emerge
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this is so informal but lovely at the same time...how do you it?
and congratulations on your graduation! (is it to college or to Job World?)
Either way, I'm sure you will grow ever stronger :>
and congratulations on your graduation! (is it to college or to Job World?)
Either way, I'm sure you will grow ever stronger :>