tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69672739488713067712024-03-21T11:54:38.583-07:00whitneyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967273948871306771.post-18896993395425181112015-11-21T18:51:00.002-08:002021-04-08T22:19:09.888-07:00this is the 27th time i've written about you<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i met you in april</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and you forgot about me by november.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">yesterday new hands scrolled through my pictures and they landed on one from my last day with you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a hundred memories pressed themselves against the edge of my mouth but i swallowed them back without even missing a beat.</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i wanted to say something pretty about the security that used to come from familiar lips </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">but the truth is i just didn’t know how</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and i think that story is tired of being told.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">some days the world just sits heavier than others and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">some days the words don’t come as easy as they used to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">some days it hurts more than i was expecting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and its not that i don’t miss you anymore,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">because i do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">its just</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’ve run out of words for you.</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’ve smeared your name across too many pages trying my hardest to unlove you,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">meanwhile you’ve occupied yourself with leaning in first for everyone but me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i guess we all have different ways of trying to forget.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and it’s not that i wasn’t expecting it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">because i was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it’s just</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’ve run out of words for you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and august didn’t last quite as long as i would’ve hoped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’ve got a really good view from my small dorm room window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i always knew it was good, but i’ve never really appreciated it until tonight, because the clouds are so thick i can’t see anything past provo,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and normally i can see all the way to the mountain my house sits on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">tonight i can’t see suncrest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">but i can imagine exactly where my mom is knitting and where my dad is journaling and how HGTV is playing just to drown out the silence, but no one's actually watching it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">yesterday they hosted an ‘empty nesters party’ at our house with all their old people friends, and last week my mom posted a collage of all her kids on instagram. she spelled empty nesters wrong in her caption so i had to call her and teach her how to fix it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">today she texted me, and somehow, even though i can’t see her, she’s still taking care of me.</span></div>
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i wasn't going to, but i took the umbrella like she told me to, and it started pouring the minute i walked outside.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’m sitting on my bed wearing the same t-shirt i always wear, with a big purple W in the middle. my roommates always stare at it like it’s poison, just like they do with anything that’s not blue or Y. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">but i don’t want to take it off. because 900 miles from my little home in provo is the green eyed girl i grew up with. she’s making new memories with new people in a new place i’ve never been. but i hear Washington’s green, and i hear it rains a lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">tonight it’s raining in provo. the grass is a brighter shade of green and even though my socks are soaked, i’ve been smiling all day. because today felt a little bit like Washington. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it felt like Washington, and it had me thinking about the green eyed girl i still talk to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">we still talk and i still miss her and nothing’s really changed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">except that everything is different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">when we talk, we talk about <i>her</i> life and <i>my</i> life and <i>his</i> life, and how it’s no longer <i>our</i> life and that’s a little bit sad. we talk about how we miss our moms, and boys with good socks and good shoes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it’s turned into a lot more of catching up than just enjoying each other’s company and it’s sad, but i guess that’s just what happens when you grow up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i've got a good view from my dorm room window. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">i can't see suncrest, but i can see the rain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it feels like Washington and growing up and poetry and college,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and not missing high school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and i’ve been waiting a long time for that.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967273948871306771.post-19963934317086560862015-05-17T22:57:00.001-07:002015-12-02T11:01:23.841-08:00eleveni hate the number 11.<br />
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i refuse to make wishes at 11:11 </div>
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but today, there are 11 days left until graduation</div>
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so tonight at 11:11, i wished for more than 11 days </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967273948871306771.post-81882798509461575222015-04-19T18:24:00.001-07:002021-04-08T22:21:38.123-07:00even after all these years<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember first grade tea parties and second grade art classes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember school getting cancelled for one inch of snow on the ground in 3rd grade because i lived in Virginia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember in 4th grade we dropped my sister off in a different state for college and i wondered if i would ever see her again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">in fifth grade a girl at the bus stop told me i had ugly teeth and a big nose and now that’s all i see when i look in a mirror</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">sixth grade was orthodontist appointments and seventh grade was figuring out how to open a locker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember being too old to trick or treat in 8th grade, but too young to drive to a halloween party</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember toms and colored jeans in ninth grade</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">in tenth grade all my friends had blonde hair so i begged my mom to let me dye mine, and i remember crying in the car on the way home from the salon because i hated it so much</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember hating junior prom and not getting asked to homecoming at the beginning of senior year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember wishing it would all be over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and now it is</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967273948871306771.post-66275642868889526702015-03-21T00:30:00.002-07:002015-12-02T10:59:19.590-08:001:29 AM & it still hurts<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">it’s been four months since that monday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">four months since <i>that</i> monday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and i’ve never been a fan of mondays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but the tears rolling down my face every night make it hard to believe</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">that it’s been four months since i’ve heard you say my name</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">it’s still hard to believe that it’s been four months </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">because my heart still hurts like it was yesterday</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and my hand still feels empty without yours in it.</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and every monday </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i still wonder if curfew is the only thing that pulls her away from you each night,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i still wonder if you grab her waist and pull her back one last time</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">just like you used to when curfew made me leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">it still hurts like it was yesterday</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but i’ll keep telling everyone i’m over you.</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i think i forgot the sound of your voice and that hurts more than anything</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i keep looking over my shoulder </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">because maybe if i turn around enough times </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">you’ll be standing there</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">it will be november again</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and i won’t be wondering about her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">it will be november</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and you’ll grab my hand</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">like yours was made to fit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">because it was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’m over you.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’m over you.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i hope they believe me and i hope someday monday doesn’t hurt so bad</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’m over you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and maybe someday i’ll believe it myself.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967273948871306771.post-62184211870019335952015-03-08T22:26:00.000-07:002015-03-08T22:26:07.534-07:00this isn't about graduation<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">taxes are due on april 15</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">resolutions begin on january 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">presents are opened on december 25</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">candy is passed out on october 31</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">everything’s green on march 17</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">fireworks and freedom on july 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">love on february 14</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">caps and gowns and diplomas on may 28.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it’s marked on my calendar just like any normal holiday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">as if it’s something to celebrate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but this isn’t about graduation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">we’ve been here for three years </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but have any of us ever stopped to read the quotes on the walls?</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">hallways that sound like headaches</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and classrooms too crowded to be anything short of lonely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but this isn’t about high school.</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">my mom still does my laundry,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and i couldn’t tell you the first thing about cooking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">or ironing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but this isn’t about graduation or anything that might come after.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember when the only people who laid down on train tracks were cartoons</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and the word “suicide” didn’t make me cringe.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember when summer meant sidewalk chalk and sprinklers under trampolines</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and the word “college” didn’t make my hands sweat.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">i remember when the future was still twelve grades away </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and the word “senior” was irrelevant.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but this isn’t about kindergarten.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and it’s not about graduation.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">this is about may 28 and the 81 days standing between here and there</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">this is about the 81 days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">this is about 81 days and the fact that my ears can’t hear anything past the 2:15 bell</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and my nose can only smell bittersweet.</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">this is about 81 days and i never thought i’d be the one chanting ‘senior year’ at the last black light dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but here i am</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and here we are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">81 days.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6967273948871306771.post-24624873218447423852015-01-29T16:37:00.000-08:002015-01-29T17:45:08.500-08:00to do<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lets order an unnecessary amount of take out from the Thai place on main street and play in the snow without gloves or shoes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lets go on a drive up the canyon without taking a single picture and make memories that only we know about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lets go to prom wearing our moms’ old dresses and dance like no one is watching (because they arent)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lets talk about how much it hurt when he walked away with your heart in his hand and how he didn’t even look back as he tossed it carelessly over his shoulder </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lets get so caught up in the moment that we can’t remember what day it is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lets blast music and scream the wrong lyrics and dance with our hands out the rolled down windows and lets pretend that it’s not below freezing outside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lets fall in love with strangers and everyone else</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lets break the rules no one ever bothered to write down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">lets cry until there’s no salt left in our bodies and lets laugh until it becomes the only thing we know how to do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">because there’s still so much to do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">but time’s running out</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i blame elementary school for turning me into a perfectionist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">in fourth grade they told me to reach for the stars, so i did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and when they told me to write down my goals for the future, i did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i reached and i reached and i wrote</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">without ever realizing that reaching the stars wasn’t the problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the problem was figuring out what to do once i had them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“reach for the stars” they said as they forgot to remind me about the footprints on the moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and my mom told me she would still be proud of me even if I chose to keep the stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">but this never ending road of constellations is confusing and i keep getting lost</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and I've never been good at listening to my mom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it’s time to figure out what comes after the stars,</span></div>
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<i>so i’m trading them in for the Moon.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and for a new name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">so i no longer have to be the girl whose name doesn’t look quite right in cursive,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’m no longer the girl who hates her too big nose for her too round face,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the girl whose words are usually hidden behind her unwilling lips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">so let me start over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">nice to meet you,</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">i’m Avery Moon.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’m in love with mountains that touch the sky and snow that never stops falling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i crave silence that doesn’t need to be filled. and let me tell you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">i’ve been to Paris once before and it was just <i>okay.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>...</i>but i came back and this time i’m here to stay,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">because i figured Paris deserves a second chance.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">don’t we all?</span></i></div>
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