I keep seeing flashing lights and spotlights and bright contrast and home lines. There will be cups and plates and knives and smiles. There will be you and them and friends and miles. There will be songs and dancing and laughing and play just like old times, much like today.

I'm ready now, to start again, to see the things I once did before.

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Eighteen years and a whole lot to learn. The puzzle pieces don't fit quite right anymore, I think I got the puzzles mixed up. Half of it is your hand and half is my heart, and that can't be correct. The page whispers obscenities when it knows that I don't want to hear them. And if you story lies in my hands then I suppose I'd like to destroy it. ( Read more... )

Remember when you were little and you used to trust everyone, and no one would hurt you? I'm trying to understand why I'm just so upset with this situation, but all I know is that I am and it isn't going away, and it won't go away even if I want it to. I wish we were children. I wish we didn't do things to hurt one another once in a while. I wish ( Read more... )

I awoke in the night, fresh from the dream which had been plaguing me for months. My palms were sweaty and my eyes were in a glass daze, stinging towards the back of my head. I felt sick, my jaw stuck in place unable to move, my legs burning with muscles being stretched as far as possible. My mouth was dry, rendering me incapable to speak ( Read more... )

Is it silly that I'm longing to talk to her? The one person who I truly cannot see through clear eyes anymore - she faces me every day afraid that it is her last. And though I cannot understand what she has become, I hope to come to terms with the being that has grown some day. Maybe because I can't see it any other way. It pains me to struggle ( Read more... )

        When I was younger, I would spend my time sitting on park benches and sipping coffee. This was not a normal life for a child at the age of 11, but I was never much of a child, no matter what my age could’ve been. I grew up quickly. Not because of the lack of parental supervision - my parents were overbearing and at times too much for me to ( Read more... )

Cause I can't feel you anymore, you're no longer near ( Read more... )

And the city lights radiate into my window at night, they help me fall asleep. When I'm alone I peer out the window and see people in their apartments just as alone as me, and it helps me fall asleep. I walked down the avenue and see couples walking hand and hand in love, and the snow drifts softer than I have ever seen, and my mind is happier than ( Read more... )

I entered Honors English in sixth grade, an unwilling young student who only took the course because my best friend was taking it as well. I despised English class - I would doodle in my notebook and give my teacher the impression that she was wasting my time. Throughout all 3 years of middle school, I did the same thing to every teacher. And every ( Read more... )