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Here Is Now

I want to grab onto every moment as it passes
I don't want to replace the old with the new
I don't want anything to change
                                                        but I'm satisfied with nothing
I don't want to live far from my family
                                                       but I'm moving out west after
graduation
I don't want to grow up
                                                       but I can't wait for my own family
to love
I don't want to replace the old with the new
                                                       but the only thing that lasts is change
I'm grabbing onto every moment as it passes
storing it in my bones and in my notebooks
                                                       they are the same thing.
My spine is the spiral from a 3-subject college bound,
my vertebrates the lines between everything
that I'm filling up, 5-pages a day. 

I want to grab onto every moment as it passes
write it down and use it to keep myself standing
when I'm old and falling as I answer the phone,
like my Nana. 

I don't know where I'm going
                                                     but I know exactly what I want.

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