• “Rows of houses sound asleep. Only street lights notice me.”
  • “No one can unring this bell, unsound this alarm, unbreak my heart new. God knows, I am dissonance, waiting to be swiftly pulled into tune.”
  • “And somehow i’ve fallen in love with this middle ground at the cost of my soul.”
  • “If brokenness is a work of art, surely this must be my masterpiece.”
  • “I’m only honest when it rains. An open book with a torn out page, and my ink’s run out.”
  • “These wild oceans shake what’s left of me loose just to hear me cry mercy. A string wind at my back, so I lift up the only sail that I have: this tired white flag.”
  • “Now i live a waking life of looking backwards, looking backwards; A model citizen of doubt.”
  • “I wake up more awake than i’ve ever been before

. Still, i’m pinned under the weight of what i believed would keep me safe.”
  • “The heaviness that i hold in my heart belongs to gravity. The heaviness that i hold in my heart’s been crushing me.”
  • “So show me where my armor ends, show me where my skin begins.”
  • “The years wore on and changed my heart. The leading role for a smaller part; now I bear little resemblance to the king I once was.”
  • “Maybe paper is paper, maybe kids will be kids. But Lord, I want to remember how to feel like i did.”
  • “God knows I’ve tried, always looking up til my eyes give up. That’s how I lost touch
 of who I am and who I was.”
  • “So you memorized those unscripted lines, desperate for some kind of clue: when the scale tipped, when you inherited a fight that you were born to lose.”
  • “A million choices, though little on their own, became the heirloom of the heaviness we’ve known.”
  • “We study our story arcs: inherently good or were we broken right from the start?”
  • “I don't expect you to understand, just to live what little life your broken heart can.”
jun 20 2018 ∞
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