i'd drop my stuff
and run down the stairs
hair flying
pens falling
head over heels
tumbling tumbling
falling
and rolling
my way down
to you

today
was such a good day
it was such a good day

(and it didn't even start
that way)

but it began when i found my place
on your side
flanked by another

when we became three
not two disconnected
but three intertwined

and sitting there i could imagine
us sitting there so many
more times
so many more times
until we were known
as three
boy girl boy
boy boy girl
girl boy boy
until it ceased to matter

and our parents knew each others names
and we spoke in secret whispers
in the night
and you knew everything
before i told you
myself

untitled

I’m trying to open myself up

to the world

and bare my secrets

the syllables scratching under my skin

so that my reader

will know who I am

and see who I’ve been

clearly

so that I will not feel empty

but they’ll feel full

with their eyes drinking in

all the knowledge

filling them up with me

and being me,

though all they can ever be is them

days after

days after days

you make me

fall and 

once i am

closing my

eyes,

beginning to 

drift -

you catch me

tondue
and extend
your leg
sharp
cutting across the
floor like
the double
edged
words you
spoke to me
that night
when we did
not dance
but rage

racing over
our rocky
syllables
hurling across
the distance
the insults
as the
edge loomed
closer and closer and
farther and farther
away

i'm trying to
impale
my worry on a
stick
not think
about
all the things that
could go
wrong,
and
all the things that
will

trickling
d
 o
  w
    n
       the
walls
are teardrops
and
raindrops
and
k
 n
  o
   w
     l
      e
       d
         g
           e
if someone
would
just
c                    ds
 u               an
    p their h
to catch them

sometimes
shut yourself up
shut yourself out
when the train whooshes by
too fast
stop
step back from the yellow line
(if you see something say something)
realize that its not your train
(this is the last stop)
you don't need to be rushing
(please stand clear of the closing doors)
why don't you walk instead?
save yourself the
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