Posts
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Stepping Stones
I take steps.
Tiny steps.
One
Step
At
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Do You Know
Do you know how many minutes I save for you
So we can be together?
Do you know how it feels
When you throw them out
For other things?
Do you know how it feels
To never feel like you're good enough
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Chasing Onwards
I chase this dream
With everything I have.
I want to be with it
Every step of the way.
From the moment I first touched it
To where my fingertips grazed actual possibility
To where my heart broke
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I Want
I want to live
Inside your head.
I want to be where
They can't hurt me.
I want to live where you are
I want to stay in the sunlight
I want to dance among the stars.
I want to live in your fantasy
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They Ask Me
The little kids
Ask for advice.
"What's middle school like? Seventh grade?"
They ask what to do and
Where to go and
What they should prepare for.
I could give them a list
Like my teachers gave me.
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Should've Written It In Pencil
I should've written it in pencil
I should've known it couldn't last.
Should've told it to a page in an in-between
Far from permanence.
I should've written it in erasable graphite
Should've whispered it to no one
Loves
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Falling Faster
I'm in love with the way you walk,
The way you talk.
I'm in love with the way you sing
If you texted me,
I'd light up.
Just because of the little ping.
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Amongst the clover
Here you lie,
Upon the grass,
Clover disguising your fragile body.
Far away from your nest and kin,
How did you get here?
Ruining your innocence
Ruining mine
Comes the wheel -
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Disappearance
A close companion
love, appreciation, happiness,
a place to go
comfort, recognition, excitement,
until the companion disappears
sadness, confusion, loneliness,
and the place to go is empty
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Conductor
He raises his hands,
And as our cue,
We begin our dance -
Instruments,
Communicating,
It's like we can talk to each other
Through the song.
He claps his hands twice -
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Too Soon
Do you ever grieve something
that isn't even over yet?
It's like you know
that's it's going to be gone anyway,
that you're going to miss it
so much,
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Those two days
Two days
Was all it took.
A day of rehearsals;
Discussing, analyzing, perfecting -
And then the day
We performed.
The day that changed everything.
I gave myself to the notes on the page,