you know the days
the ones where you regret
every stupid thing you’ve ever done
look back over your shoulder
wistful at wisps wilted and slipped
through numbly fumbling fingers
while you were busy tightening
your heavy cloak of unlovability
the love you longed got stuck inside
the mirror of nonsensical symmetry
we are like children
inexperienced and naive
never taught how to handle
snow globes brimming with God
disagreeing over methodologies
to get it across the finish line
self-righteously wronging
from craves crumbled
to do it right
because it’s Us in there
enshrined in white orbitals
frosted characters waiting
for whirls to still
so they can be seen
on collapsed knees
opening
to the same page
at the same line
unshattered
today
is one of those
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 31, 2017 at 12:21 PM UTC
you know the days
the ones where you regret
every stupid thing you’ve ever done
look back over your shoulder
wistful at wisps wilted and slipped
through numbly fumbling fingers
while you were busy tightening
your heavy cloak of unlovability
the love you longed got stuck inside
the mirror of nonsensical symmetry
we are like children
inexperienced and naive
never taught how to handle
snow globes brimming with God
disagreeing over methodologies
to get it across the finish line
self-righteously wronging
from craves crumbled
to do it right
because it’s Us in there
enshrined in white orbitals
frosted characters waiting
for whirls to still
so they can be seen
on collapsed knees
opening
to the same page
at the same line
unshattered
today
is one of those
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