I like to find beauty in the things that hold on to us. The universe has been writing wills and testaments on my typewriter and I am trying to listen. It's saying things like "Let go... a little bit... let go... your grip has always been too strong". The universe calls me dear and I want to scream when he tells me to let go. Let go. Let the light in. I'm tired of letting things in, I am tired, universe I am tired and you are a ***** liar. Nobody is coming back. Nobody is coming back. My wrists are full of dead friends. NOBODY IS COMING BACK. And the universe replies "but when they do..." Everything is always a hesitance. Why can't something be forever? My words will die the day I do and what will be left of me? A promise? A broken promise? A broken promise. I hope you know by my poems if I am doing well or not. I hope you know it's usually the latter. I hope you know I have loved you as long as I have thought and oh, I have thought. / / / the universe never saw this coming the universe quiets his mouth, lets her speak with only her tongue, tries to decipher the back and forth. the universe never knew I was a shadow. nobody knew. and all that's left, when the echoes die all that's left will always be our prolonging. our promise? our broken promise? a broken promise.