there are all the things I could do with three minutes alone in my room
I have an essay to write and Hebrew to study
I have things to look up and notifications to check
there are all the things I could do with three minutes alone in my room
but
I prefer to watch the last bits of dusk be swallowed by the night
and I prefer to put off for tomorrow what I could've done today.
darling i think the prettiest thing of it is that i
have been dreaming about this moment since i was little,
pressing my mouth to the back of my hand to see what it felt like to be touched like that,
vermont is a half-finished poem with all the lines scratched out.
grandfathers who’ve lived here their whole lives still talk of leaving,
it is november now which is unbelievable
because last night we got blisters on our feet running
house to house in too-small rainboots, our wings
flapping lopsidedly behind us. it rained on and off
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but my dear could this have ever been put off?
"I prefer to watch the last bits of dusk be swallowed by the night"
To miss it would mean forever.
<3
This says to me that you've truly learned how to live in the moment (even if it feels like procrastination sometimes). We all deserve a little beauty in our day, and often we must grasp onto it when it presents itself or it can so quickly slip away. And I love your play on that Benjamin Franklin quote: "One today is worth two tomorrows"!
Thank you so much!! Also, I have literally never heard of that Ben Franklin quote :/ :D but sounds like something i'd do!!!
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