so many people have sacrificed their lives for me to have a life. and here i am sitting in my room, doing absolutely nothing that is anywhere near that sacrifice.
life is valuable, and it should not be wasted.
so many people have sacrificed their lives for me to have a life. and here i am sitting in my room, doing absolutely nothing that is anywhere near that sacrifice.
life is valuable, and it should not be wasted.
i’ll be the sun, you be the shining
you be the clock, i’ll be the timing
well i was feeling such a mess i thought you’d leave me behind
well i was feeling so upset i thought the sun never shined
then I found forever
hey hey love
we’ve been best friends forever darling
that’s what’s up
you be the book, i’ll be the binding
you be the words, i’ll be the rhyming
while i was feeling such a wreck i thought i was losing my mind
while i was feeling such a mess i thought the sun never shined
you be the bird, i’ll be the feather
we’ll be the best of friends forever
while i was feeling such a mess i thought you’d leave me behind
while i was feeling such a wreck i thought you’d treat me unkind
forever, come what may
you’ve got my love to lean on darling
all the days
that’s what up//edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros
“Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something, not didactic things, but passionate things.”
- maurice sendak as told to The New York Times’ Sarah Lyall in 1993.
walking away…
&& i am starting to feel free and whole again
so i am better without you. and you. and you.
i can’t make you love me if you don’t
you can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
here in the dark, in these final hours
i will lay down my heart and i will feel the power
but you wont, no you wont
morning will come and i will do what’s right
just give me ‘till then to give up this fight
and i will give up this fight
scatter of water,
falling slowly, falling fast, falling just the right amount
so generously freeing the dirt left behind by someone else’s mess.
thunderously clapping, steadily beating, being the perfect amount of right
so mundane, yet so special
are they tears? or are they
refreshed, renewed
there is a defining mood that you seem to captivate.