listen to me, you are going to be loved.
more importantly, you are going to love.

you’re scared because you’re older now
and you’re still all alone,
but i promise you,
you will be loved harder than most.
because you waited
and because you are made entirely of longing.

you’re not going to get the practice,
the dry runs that everyone else gets,
you’re going to get thrown into it
like a wave crashing on you
and you won’t know up from down.

you are going to be so lucky.
you are going to fumble through all of it at first,
you’re going to throw yourself out of every window imaginable
before you find your feet and your head.

you are controlled by your heart and that is okay.
you are lonely and you’ve been waiting so, so, so long.
but it’s coming
and you aren’t going to be ready for it;
people like us are never going to be ready for it
but that is why we will be okay,
because our mistakes will feel like the end of the world
and there is nothing better than feeling the ground crumble beneath you
and there is nothing better than finding out there is a surface underneath it.

you are going to love hard and probably too much
and you will be loved back so fiercely
you will want to crawl out of your own skin and float away,
but you won’t
you will stay
and you will learn to accept it.
you are going to be happy
and you are going to be scared shitless.
you are going to change.
that’s what i think love is,
when you can’t remember who you were before
and who you are after it
but it’s all okay (k.w)

I can't tell
if it's the lack
of sleep
or the lack
of human contact
that makes me
feel the way I do

but somehow
of all feelings
i feel empty

like the cigaret pack that used to be full
lying on the balcony table
or the bottle of gin
that do not seem
to notice
how tonight again
i didn't feel a thing

I know that look upon your eyes,
As we're waiting in the busy line.
Tell me that it's a big surprise,
But I know that you'll never be mine.

So we'll board this busy train
Glad you'll never know this pain
Just a couple days ago
We were riding on the metro
I'm gonna let you go,
Can't keep holding on.

Just a couple more stops to our town,
As you tell me about your little world.
Can't you see me, that I'm feeling down?
But you're looking at the pretty girls.

So we'll board this busy train
Glad you'll never know this pain
Just a couple days ago
We were riding on the metro
I'm gonna let you go,
Can't keep holding on.

Sing it with your old guitar
Old friend you'll go far
Just another one last drink
So I've got time to think
Make your mind up
Because I've been in love

So we'll board this busy train
Glad you'll never know this pain
Just a couple days ago
We were riding on the metro
I'm gonna let you go,
Can't keep holding on.

When he returned from Vietnam
it was in part, not whole.
Something akin to jungle rot
has seeped into his soul.

He was not fit for steady work
or the company of man, and
in his dreams lurked demons
only liquor could withstand.

The streets of San Diego
are more hospitable as most.
You'll find him sleeping on the grass
in the Corps of the lost hopes.

His final battle rages here,
more desperate than in Nam.
this veteran fights for dignity
in a cold, uncaring land.

Take a brick
For every time someone beat you
Break a window with each one
You'll feel better, I promise

Take a match
For every scream they threw into your ears
Burn the words into dust at your feet
You'll feel better, I promise

Take a breath
For the bubbling anger inside your soul
Count to 15
You'll feel better, I promise

Take a bandage
For every broken heart
Wrap it carefully, it will heal and
You'll feel better, I promise

Take a smile
For every sad day
Wear it always like the clothes on your back
You'll feel better, I promise

Take a secret
For every one you've kept
Lets do a trade, take mine I'll take yours
You'll feel better, I promise

Take my heart
For every time you feel unloved
Don't forget the key
Read it and cherish every last drop of love
You'll feel better, I promise

I unlove you
I don't care if it's a neologism
It's my heart you imprisoned
And I unlove you for that

You were everything I wanted
Because I love everything you're not
I love it a lot, like a lot a lot
And I love what you don't look like
I've fallen head over heels for
Whose personality you don't resemble
I long for the way your kisses differ
How the *** isn't as curricular
But of course that's not enough

I want to want you
And "you" is an easy word to rhyme with
So that's what I won't do
See how easily I'm distracted away
From what you've got, what I can't say?
Because all I know is what you don't relay
How we share a not-so-bad day
I've got a question... if I may

I should love you for what you've got, right?
For all you are and not for who you're not, right?
If this holds true, we'll descend from the spotlight
'Cause I don't care about who you are, just who you're not quite
I unlove you with my whole heart
And I refuse to dig any further
I like to love everthing you're not about
And I pray that's okay with you

omo Fitutu
nureba ya Fito no
mieturan
yume to siriseba
samezaramasi wo

Was I lost in thoughts of love
When I closed my eyes? He
Appeared, and
Had I known it for a dream
I would not have awakened.