The empty beer cans that you used to defy gravity They empty shampoo canisters that washed away your wrath and loss The empty notebooks not filled with the poetry you weren’t inspired enough to write The pages of books you couldn’t finish but pretend you did The lost shoes and who you where with you feet deep in grass and not cardboard The bed you don’t sleep in because you have found a warmth the don’t sterilize The roommate who things didn’t fill up your cupboards now designated for other objects The roads you don’t drive because you have nowhere to go
Life is in the muffled noises you hear between rooms The nights you didn’t take pictures The ones you don’t remember even though they shaped your exact being The times you felt boring Or when you didn’t realize how many substances you were on Or the papers you could have made genius The empty boxes of hairdye that washed out in a week and didn’t cure your suburban binality The dumb tattoos you want to get but now would be a shameful laser treatment Your daydreams that never came true Your daydreams that always came true and somehow didn’t lead up to there power of inception
Life is in other peoples good nights Other people dark pasts of drug abuse and civil unrest in the **** of an earthquake Life is in the drug you where afraid to do In the lies that you tell to become a different person Its in the people you treated like **** for your own guilty needs Its in the people whose gritty *** you walked in on
Life is in your lack of passions or skills or drive or organization Its in the stupid ironic thift store choices you don’t throw away but never wear for 99 cents Its in all the time you didn’t sing in a crowd And you let someone convince you of facts you knew where wrong It in every liar, and ****** human being you defined inorder to not believe they were **** Its in every used ****** of the one night stands that made miserable times but good stories Its in *** length hair In tongue scars In the people who know too much about you and you have know idea
Life is in your love of things you hate In empty coffee cups that once saved you in a moment of weakness In all the tears you shed drunk Its in all you temporary obsessions and forgotten hobbies The greeting cards you didn’t read and the thank you you never gave
Life is in the person you thought you would be right now The empty packs of stubbed cigarettes The forgotten names and anonymous snuggles The empty guns and unfolded knives The unmailed letters that help you reach redemption by telling them you would never forget
Life is in the times you didn’t run to the wild The people who weren’t who you thought The soul mates that became frat brothers Or those people who drifted because you didn’t no what to say anymore
Life is in our unbrushed teeth Or the void you cant find Or the puzzle piece hid under the radiator Life is in the wine bottles we stack
Life is in what we treat as forgotten streaming unconscious waste Because we always looked ahead, and to empty more that will never fill