How distant do you feel from our ideal life,
and how hard are you willing to go, to get there?
You’ve got to pull a big swing sometimes, to get there, you know?
You’ll flourish in the aftermath.
What I’m carrying is joy.
Notes for an American student in Paris..
Be less intense
tone it down
pullback.
Enough scrappiness, hustle,
and intensity on repeat.
Sure, honesty is sanity,
but give them a better version
some ‘church girl’ energy, maybe.
Win ‘em with winsome
Don’t welcome them, immediately, into your tense, inner world.
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Songs for this:
Oh Honey! (I Love You) by Peach Tree Rascals
Nothing Breaks Like a Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus) by Mark Ronson
Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) by The Bangles
Categories:
scrappiness, america, humor, image, paris,
Form: Free verse
We’ll walk this through together
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It’s not the time
To go after your dreams
As nothing is
As what it seems
It’s not the time
To live your life
As you’re running into
An open knife
It’s not the time
To please yourself
To put your trophies
Upon a shelf
It’s not the time
To pursue your own happiness
As what you’ll get will be
Your heart in scrappiness
It is the time
yourself to gather
As I will teach you
Not to bother
It is the time
For you to wait
And let me work
Upon your fate
It is the time
For you to pray
And I will come
To seize the day
It is the time
To lay your weapons down
Upon your head
I’ll put a crown
It is the time
That you surrender
As I’m the one
Who loves you tender
I love you kind
But you act blind
Instead of forward
You walk rewind
I love you most
But you’re thinking
That I’m a ghost
I’m here for you
All day all night
And it is me
Who’s gonna fight
And win for you
So we together
Will walk this through
Categories:
scrappiness, jesus,
Form: Quatrain