"You only live once!" was a line everybody knew.
Whether that be in shortened form "YOLO" or the words by themselves, everybody knew it.
Living scares me. I live in a world that feels like a prison cell. Sometimes I so badly want to break out if that cell. But I get a weird feeling in my chest. Was is panic? I am not sure was exactly the feeling is.
My mind shifts. One second I am desperate to ...
I hate being the favorite.
I don't like it at all one bit.
The pressure to be perfect.
The pressure to be great
The pressure to be astonishing and be the perfect weight.
I'm not perfect.
Nor am I great.
Stop painting my picture you claim I create.
Heaven forbid your perfect daughter is unique?
Is my originality too weird for the things that you speak?
Tell our family wonderful lies.
And ...
A sense of acceptance
A sense of relief
The feeling of safety and being complete.
What is belonging, according to me?
It is something that ends quite shortly.
Like a dream you try to grasp and hold onto, only for it to leave
Or a firework on the fourth of July that is extremely brief
Or a memory of being a young baby that drifts away like smoke.
The memory's of being young and happy, listeni...
My city is on fire
They raise the standards higher
And the marks on my papers get brighter and brighter.
Everything surrounding me in gray colored ashes
Broken, shattered, smoke stained glasses.
A metaphor to lighten up the unbearable truth.
A phrase I will use to conceal what I lose.
Watered down mascara or a tear stained face
Isn't enough to let me take a break.
Late assignments and crimso...
