Comments | ofbirdsandwires: like learning you, exposing me

ofbirdsandwires

like learning you, exposing me

Feb 20, 2006 23:43

Growing up away from the water has not meant that I love it less, but that I love it differently. The pull of tides is strong, like blood rushing to my cheeks when hand to hand and mouth on mouth, like a wanting inside that waxes and wanes with the moon but refuses to ebb away and leave me entirely. I am shipwrecked far from the shore, so far ( Read more... )

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stuck_on_go February 21 2006, 00:12:09 UTC

precise

ofbirdsandwires February 21 2006, 00:16:28 UTC

is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

stuck_on_go February 21 2006, 01:38:13 UTC

it's talent.
is that a good thing,
or a bad thing?

ofbirdsandwires February 21 2006, 15:55:06 UTC

neither

or: both

(it just is)
(though 'precise' is a word I have never given to myself, from you I take it as a gift)

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ofbirdsandwires February 21 2006, 00:21:06 UTC

I wrote this after reading the comment, yes, but I didn't think her comment/your comments were meant in any unpleasant way. I was just inspired to write this, and I'll take my inspiration where I find it. It wasn't supposed to come across as an angry reply, though.

I should have added a comment underneath this to explain - I feel almost as if I've stolen a part of something I had no right to.

sssleep February 21 2006, 03:03:45 UTC

i wish i could be like this.
i'm being tossed on the sea, and the lighthouse refusing to shine it's light to send me home.

oceanfloors February 21 2006, 03:57:23 UTC

oh you, i say this countless times but we, we are the same people in two different bodies, but that might not be a good thing to you, you might not want to be me. heehee, if so, please don't tell me!

ofbirdsandwires February 21 2006, 20:27:28 UTC

two birds who fly with the same wings through different skies

or: one hand and the other, separate and then connected in applause for the small, beautiful things.

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ofbirdsandwires February 23 2006, 20:50:33 UTC

it makes perfect sense.

I live in a city which, basically, is in the middle of this island. I have been on the sea, in the sea, near the sea, and returned to the metal and bricks like they were both the same (because I love them both, because I need them both).

Thinking about university, I applied to Aberystwyth to study English with Creative Writing but I didn't tell anyone that really, I only chose the place because it is by the sea.
Unfortunately, I cannot stomach the thought of being four difficult hours away from home (which...god, you say 'ten' and I think a lifetime, I say 'four' and think the same) and so I decided on somewhere else, inland.