the fall
that's all i remember
a sudden shove
and after the initial shock registered
all i felt was my arms and legs
cartwheeling
trying to find purchase on a surface that was not really there
and then
and then this
not really sure how to describe it
oh, people have tried
for millenia
the feeling
that everything's a dream
everything's an illusion
a fake
and it is because of this feeling
that i am certain
everything is deadly
and real
and it won't go away
the fall
when they run out of questions,
they generally revert back to one single phrase
worded differently
with different intonations and in different accents
*did it hurt
was it painful
did you feel betrayed*
i didn't feel anything
i couldn't feel anything
because nothing was real
don't they teach you kids this stuff?
this is important, right?
why don't you know this?
everything stops, at one point or another
everything ends, and then begins
cycles repeat
and repeat
and repeat
and i wait
of course i felt betrayed
...
i'm only human...
the people around me
forget
after a while
everything
i tell them things
and they forget
they tell themselves things
and they forget
the city
bustling
movement without abandon
no-one has tried to restrict them in years
and they celebrate it
by restricting themselves
so i wait
it has been such a long time now
it has been seconds
it has been decades
it has been an eternity
and i wait
Jul 4, 2013
Jul 4, 2013 at 11:20 PM UTC
the fall
that's all i remember
a sudden shove
and after the initial shock registered
all i felt was my arms and legs
cartwheeling
trying to find purchase on a surface that was not really there
and then
and then this
not really sure how to describe it
oh, people have tried
for millenia
the feeling
that everything's a dream
everything's an illusion
a fake
and it is because of this feeling
that i am certain
everything is deadly
and real
and it won't go away
the fall
when they run out of questions,
they generally revert back to one single phrase
worded differently
with different intonations and in different accents
*did it hurt
was it painful
did you feel betrayed*
i didn't feel anything
i couldn't feel anything
because nothing was real
don't they teach you kids this stuff?
this is important, right?
why don't you know this?
everything stops, at one point or another
everything ends, and then begins
cycles repeat
and repeat
and repeat
and i wait
of course i felt betrayed
...
i'm only human...
the people around me
forget
after a while
everything
i tell them things
and they forget
they tell themselves things
and they forget
the city
bustling
movement without abandon
no-one has tried to restrict them in years
and they celebrate it
by restricting themselves
so i wait
it has been such a long time now
it has been seconds
it has been decades
it has been an eternity
and i wait