Apr 19, 2002 15:21
imagine.....
a living room turned into a stage for three 16 year old girls to sing spice girls old songs
feeling so free and light that if you picked up both feet at the same time, you wouldn't come down
three girls, who know they will go somewhere, dance around and hold remote controls and hair brushes as microphones
laughing and looking to both sides of you, as they swarm around you singing "if you wanna be my lover...."
moving your pillow to the other side of the bed so you can hear the rain fall at night.
rereading the beginning parts of your novel and realizing it's so much like you.
going outside, sitting on a porch swing with your mother, and letting warm wind wrap around you.
being inside something so much bigger than you, and so uncomprehendable, that it seems, whatever happens, it will always be watched over
and imagine that these are you. these are what makes you smile. what makes you want to live.
spin around and let the world fall this way and that, let yourself fall with it.
for some reason, everyone knows that it will pick itself back up, brush off it's knees and stand
let yourself go.