Four years.I was nine when they left me, when my best friend became my father, when the cancer got bad and I had to learn how to cook and clean and tuck myself into bed at night.Four years.
I was nine when my mother quit her job, and began spending every hour she had in the hospital, when my father began breaking promises and changing rules and getting lost on the highway because the hospital was the only place he knew.
I was nine when I understood what it meant to grow up too quickly, when they pulled me out of my classroom to tell me she was dying, when I realized that losing my sister would end more lives than one.
I was
hypocrite's lullabyyou're an oxymoronhypocrite's lullaby
you know everything
(about history and works of literature)
you know nothing
(about love)
you know how to compliment
but never confirm it, leaving us all to wonder if you're actually serious
you can't take a compliment yourself
you're arrogant but flinch when anyone talks of a weakness of yours
you appreciate beauty but refuse to see it in yourself
you're high above in intellectual discussions
you're awkward and inexperienced in commonplace &
Watching him change.He had grown-up hands and little boy eyes and a way ofWatching him change.
saying things that made even the heartbroken want to love again; I don't think he could lie to save his life, but he told me about things that couldn't possibly be true, like worlds
full of happiness and love at first sight; He knew nothing
about real things like math or how people worked, but he was the only person who would just lay in the grass with me
and not worry about the world spinning away without us.
And sometimes, as he's falling asleep, I can see the echoes of that
in the park
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We have a mouth to say words...we have eyes to show whether or not we mean them.
Life is like walking on a tight rope...your friends are your safety net.
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I did a shit on your shit
Irony completed ©
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if a picture says a thousand words...why do we need to give them a title?
please check out my photos
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Please, tell me what Life is.
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swing on the spiral
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