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.
Copyright © Christy Totten | Year Posted 2007
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