Anyone in the world is welcome
to make temporary footprints
on our barefaced hearts.
They fill our heads with memories
of rushed patience, coping with secrets
taming emotions, tired fun
aching smiles and clear confusion.
They make us cry until a sea is nourished
with our heavy, comforting tears
that mask our eyes when we're hurting.
Our emotions will never hide
From anyone we call a 'friend'.
They eventually go, their faces
only lingering in our memories
Their names are forgotten because
they are gone and they left your heart
to heal and their footprints to melt.
Teenage girl, time waster, daydreamer,
artist, fashion lover, writer,
beginning photography, idealist,
romantic, close friend,
daughter, sister, secret keeper,
misunderstood, riot runner, once a rebel,
always hopeful, almost an introvert,
hater of lies, lover of liberty, led by the heart,
fears being lonely, still fears the dark,
curious of the future yet scared of the unknown,
colour junkie, constant believer,
just another ordinary.
Anyone in the world is welcome
to make temporary footprints
on our barefaced hearts.
They fill our heads with memories
of rushed patience, coping with secrets
taming emotions, tired fun
aching smiles and clear confusion.
They make us cry until a sea is nourished
with our heavy, comforting tears
that mask our eyes when we're hurting.
Our emotions will never hide
From anyone we call a 'friend'.
They eventually go, their faces
only lingering in our memories
Their names are forgotten because
they are gone and they left your heart
to heal and their footprints to melt.
Teenage girl, time waster, daydreamer,
artist, fashion lover, writer,
beginning photography, idealist,
romantic, close friend,
daughter, sister, secret keeper,
misunderstood, riot runner, once a rebel,
always hopeful, almost an introvert,
hater of lies, lover of liberty, led by the heart,
fears being lonely, still fears the dark,
curious of the future yet scared of the unknown,
colour junkie, constant believer,
just another ordinary.
Hey Future Love,
I didnt know how to start this letter
Dear, or hello, couldnt decide which sound better.
I went for the informal because Im not trying to impress
Try to make it laid back so theres no need to stress.
I know I dont know your namebut someday I hope
Well meet on the street and no longer be alone.
Sometimes I gaze up at the stars and imagine how it will be
Where will it happen? Will you just turn and look at me?
Will we discover the meaning of love at first sight?
Perhaps it will take one or two nights
Laying out under the stars and discovering the myste
Beware the grammar gangsters!
The mafia of the literary underworld.
They saunter into stanzas,
Weapons concealed
Under their trench coats
Or in violin cases.
They can make you talk,
"With just a few well-placed speech marks,"
Leave you shouting! Where you should have whispered!
And pulp your bold statements into quavering questions?
They can, pepper, your, phrases with, commas,
Or bring your piece to a dead.
Full.
Stop.
They'll trap you (between brackets)
As you - dash - to the exit.
Then: punch a blunted colon
Into the gut of your text
Or worse;
Force-feed you a poisonous semicolon,
Then hack/slash your work to shreds.
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