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Francesca Grey Jul 2024
‘do not fall in love with girls like me’, she said:
‘we’re smiles and charm, worn jeans on skin;
but there is an emptiness inside us,
and we forgot how to be loved a long time ago.’

‘you’ll love me like you love the sun,
with wide-eyed breathless wonderment;
I’ll spin in circles until I fall from grace,
and burn the very heart from you.’

‘I’ll dance barefoot in the grass,
and sing a thousand wordless songs;
I’ll whisper prayers into your ears:
“I hope your heart might chose more wisely.”

‘do not fall in love with girls like me’, she warns,
‘not with girls who dream of yesterday.
not girls with starlight glinting in their eyes,
and sunsets burning in their souls.’

choose instead, to be loved as you deserve,
to find someone who’ll love you boundlessly.
‘do not fall in love with girls like me’, she warned,
it was, in truth, the kindest thing that she could say;

and yet, she found that fool chose to love her anyway.
do you know, that silly fool still loves me, even all these years later. i rather think I love him too, but shh, don't tell.
Charlotte Ahern Oct 2020
Good and bad are always housed
Under the same roof
It all depends
On who you make your bedmate
Comprende?
Minyeon Oct 2020
Child of earth what do you seek?
Longing eyes that seeks the truth would burden ones heart . Would you allow strokes of purple or rainbows in your canvas?
For it seems confusing— I also got lost.
Tom Atkins Oct 2020
Sometimes
the biggest step forward
is a step back,

to find the place
you left the path,
following someone else’s journey
instead of your own.
I was about 14. I was on a hike with a large group of Boy Scouts. We came to a fork in path. It wasn’t marked clearly, so we picked one, and off we went. A couple of hours later, it became clear to some of us that we were on the wrong path.

A few of us went back, to cat calls and ridicule, found the fork and went the other way. The bulk of the group stayed the course and went forward. It turned out our little band was right. We had a glorious hike, great views, and came back to the parking lot at the bottom of the mountain at the time we expected to.

Five hours later the other group wandered in, bedraggled, tired, having walked and wandered all over the place, with no views and finally having to use their compasses and cutting across the mountainside without a path to get back to us.

It is a lesson I have carried and had to apply several times in life.

Sometimes we have to go backwards to go forward. And there is no shame in that.

Tom
Hidden Glade Sep 2020
What happens
when I'm not
worthy of this love
we share?

Does that spell
doom and
disarray for our
duo?

Or does it
only mean I've
overlooked all the
obvious things?
Bruh I don't even know anymore.

Don't take this to serious ****.
Yvonne Canio Sep 2020
They say "sometimes life's unfair".
Sometimes you're up in the air,
But usually you're down,
Feeling lower than the ground.

But life can also make you happy,
With friends and family.
The times you cherished together,
Will always be in your memories forever.

Yes, I know sometimes it isn't easy.
Being stressed for being too busy.
Stop achieving the person others want you to be,
Start being you and the person you want to be.

Always remember,
Life isn't life without challenges.
Your life depends on your choices.
So start living it to the fullest
the good side Sep 2020
I can't save me from myself now.
Tried drowning myself in places and crowds.
From where I started and.. where I'm at its worst somehow.
Every color of emotion kept filling up.
But we don't have a choice, do we?
Asominate Sep 2020
Trust was never a option
But were there any options to begin with?
The paranoia is real, the cake is not
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