i've found myself merging into a race of people where i am nothing but lightning, so painfully visible but not loud enough to be thunder. my body started springing up from the earth into a thorn bush, not yet becoming roses. although when my feet hit cement, they leave behind a path of flowers that quickly manage to cease. my brain is wired in a way where i don't sense destruction until it creeps up on me like the flu. like a leech, i desperately latch onto my mistakes because they are expectant and familiar with me and i am familiar with them. i don't know a life without sadness but i know how to be happy.