distractions get us through hardship. sometimes they change our lives, sometimes theyre just a catalyst for whats to come.. whether that be good or bad. im fascinated with the idea of distractions, of taking one thing (or person) and coating over it with all these other things that make it seem trivial and make you feel better. but what happens ( Read more... )

there are many different kinds of people in this world ( Read more... )

we saw the stars that night, or i saw them.
you stood above me, puzzled.
'get up!'
no. i cant get up just yet, 'come look at the stars with me'
'umm.. how about no?'
i lay there on that back street, on the cold ground.
you walked away from me then, went to talk to a friend.
the twigs and rocks under my sticky body welcomed me
and after a moment or so i ( Read more... )

FOR YOU

--im sorry i didnt go to discoteca with you. i think it hurt our friendship. since then, only things that were set in stone have not changed.

--somehow i get the idea that i annoy you. you know this, i've told you. ive always been able to tell you a lot.

--i dont understand you. how you can think this is all fair, that this is all okay..

--i ( Read more... )

its funny how a single person can affect your life so much. not even necessarily your mother, your best friend, your boyfriend. people. a seat in your math class, the girl sitting at the next table.. what if one day they just weren't sitting there? the seat empty, the table filled with the girl's friends.. her face not among them. its funny how ( Read more... )

"we have all the time in the world"

yeah, i think we do
and thank you for reminding me.

i get it now ( Read more... )

i very much enjoy my constant writing. ive estranged myself from my family and my new love is for the characters. i'd forgotten how wonderful it is to not have to limit yourself to poetry in the back of your chemistry notebook or the bottom of an english worksheet..

even though i cant read him, i can read you. and there are moments when i can think  ( Read more... )

she gave up on everything these days. everything she had worked for as a young girl, and even recently, it all came down to nothing. some of the things she knew she had to let go of, just a growing up kind of thing, she let go of her childhood friends, the relationships she had with them and no longer thought about it as much. that was okay. she ( Read more... )

i have writers block.
and i have people block.
i cannot read you at all.
two things that ive been told im good at.
block.
block.
block.
id ask for a sign, but you wont read this.
id ask for anything, but i doubt youd think its you.
i cant even make up my fricken mind about discoteca.
i am in a state of vacillation.

give me words..
because for the first time
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