Suspended globes
Balls of swirling light
Galaxies in my palm
Nothing beyond them
But this
I looked through a telescope
And saw your face
We lived in the stars
Climbed down a constellation
In a parallel world
I must have left my heart down there
It must have fallen off my open sleeve
I ...
I sat turned away through the rest of the class. I couldn’t pick up the probe, except to scratch a deep X into the black wax on the dissection tray. I couldn’t pull off the wings or poke at the eyes. I wouldn’t cut through the base of the head and cause blood to spurt from draining spaces. Th...
Don't hold on
When you know you're slipping
Just let go
'Cause in the end it's just you, and me, alone.
One more second passes by
Time reflecting in your eye...
And we're falling!
I can't hold on
I'm letting go
But I don't mind,
We can leave the ...
You know you’re in color guard when…
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You dance with poles, but you’re not a stripper.
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You say you are when someone does not know what color guard is.
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If you ever ran away from home, you would live in the guard closet.
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You never have to worry about kidnappers because yo...
It was a windy autumn day when I first thought of you
The classroom became our confessional
Our court, with a mock judge and hung jury
It was you on trial, but I sentenced myself instead
It could have been better,
It could have been worse.
I thought of what should have been
and I saw myself ...
I gave up social networking for Earth Week. I never thought it would be difficult. I thought I could live without Facebook or Twitter or Youtube.
I thought I was different.
I'm not.
I thought I was immune. I thought these insignificant, transitory things couldn't touch me, could...
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