starchild
on days like today, there is no time available to stop and catch your breath.
he had a bottle that he kept in one of his side cabinets, praying that none of the others would find it there. he had his escape, and if anyone ever took it away, he would be lost.
The line of lanterns shone red and gold, so high in the air they looked to be floating.
over the past few months, we have been going over hormones and their effects on the human body in biology class. i can't say i enjoy it very much.
fascinating as it is, it depresses me to think that all feelings of love and happiness are controlled by the chemicals in our blood. how am i supposed to believe i have any control at all?
plowing through the blizzard on my way home, i was numb from leaving them behind. i'd never fancied myself giving up on anything or anyone, but the rumble of the wheels beneath my feet kept laughing,
we knew you couldn't do it we knew you couldn't we knew
i want to disappear. i want to take you away. i want to leave a mess behind. i want to kiss you under the light of a lamp-post in the pouring rain until neither of us can feel anymore and then walk away from you and never look back and leave you behind thinking you are in love with me and hoping i want you just the same but then i will never see you again and all you will want is for me to come back and wrap myself around you again but you will know somewhere deep down that i'll never return i will never.
he left her sitting there on the floor by herself surrounded by dust, he turned around and walked away without even glancing back once. what was she supposed to do?
i went upstairs and curled up in my blanket and cried, swathed in silence and despair.
of course i can still hold you up; that's what i've been doing for so many years now, i know nothing else. when you have no one else you turn to me because i have always been your foundation.
i tire of it, but you never notice.
the stone columns were aligned perfectly; they were bleached exactly white by the sun. though they were only a few steps outside her apartment's front door, they always amazed her when she passed by.
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