Should've Known This Would Happen
I think she should’ve known this would happen
When that straight-A girl became the one who’d sneak out past midnight,
I think she should’ve known this would happen
When that straight-A girl became the one who’d sneak out past midnight,
I remember
Sitting on the couch
Tears on my face
Thinking
I don’t ever want to grow up
Now I am here
Crying
Looking at my eighth grade student council poster
how the wind blows over the river
quite a curious thing, isn’t it,
the way the water rolls in time
with the wind’s hushed music
that echoes
Once a month when the pain sears
The pain we feel that brings us to tears
When we wake up to a special surprise
When we want to go to sleep, to close our eyes
Melts the sun
With her ferocity– stripped away,
Turned into fragility,
We gasp as moon swallows sun.
We call it: “catastrophe,” as if — it is different.
A child nursed of negligence.
Yes, it is not ours —
i remember my first day of middle school
i was wearing washed-out jeans and a t-shirt from Target
my short brown hair was parted to the side
My friends and I eat goldfish and raisins
in the same bowl
and the textures clash, but somehow the salty sweet
really works
my friends and I eat the outsides of carrots
leaving the core
People are so cruel
How could you live like that
They scream and curse
How could you live like that.
They think the only person
That matters are themselves
The girl I once knew
sang merrily while lying on the damp grass,
read stories out loud to her dolls;
played with a bright pink tea set.
But now
she only sings while no one is hearing,
I would look,
5,7,8
Your long blonde hair,
Identical to mine.
Your music,
Bubbly & Rainbow,
Always made me smile.