its pretty hard to comprehendwhyeverything has happened the wayit has.things could've gone better,we could both be a little happier,and maybe in a different time or worldwe would be together.but until then,we wait.
She smokesHe cutsDifferent thingsBut for the same reasons.She's harmedOn the insideHe's harmedOn the out.Her skin hidesThe effectsLong sleevesHide his.With the disguisesShe can't see his painAnd he can't see hers.Their eyes tell
I wanted to be an artistI drew everywhereI felt alive.By age 8I wanted to danceSo I dancedI felt great.Once I turned 10I wanted to actSo I lied a lotBut I changed yet again.When I was 13I wanted to be knownI talked to everyoneBut no one called my phone.At 16
The weight of misfortune has stooped my shouldersBut I don’t intend to stop for a good while yet;I afflict my own destinyAnd don’t want anyone to mourn for my fate.I’ve made peace with God on my lossesAnd agreed with him on the epitaphsThat should be written about my senseless wars.
I am not the black cat.There were four of us;my grandmother,a black cat,a myth,and I.My grandmother oftentold us a myth.When you are ill, she said,if a black catcomes and sits on your bedit means that youwill die soon.I was only six,seriously ill.Our black cat
VIWe lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack:Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly.We see the things we do not yearn to seeAround us: and what see we glancing back?Lost hopes that leave our hearts upon the rack,Hopes that were never ours yet seem’d to be,For which we steer’d on life’s salt stormy seaBraving the sunstroke and the frozen pack.If thus to look behind is all in vain,And all in vain to look to left or right,Why face we not our future once again,Launching with hardier hearts across the main,Straining dim eyes to catch the invisible sight,And strong to bear ourselves in patient pain?IX