#instead of love

1. a battle of conflicting ideologies

2. two people trying to find someone they thought could cover up their mistakes for them 

3. someone to blame 

4. the same mistake my parents made 

5. flying too close to the sun and watching each other fall in slow motion 

6. pretending we had it all 

7. pretending we knew it all 

8. trial and error 

9. a test drive with no experienced teacher in the passenger seat 

10. waves of hormones in the human body crashing upon the mind's shore 

11. sparks and glitter showers 

12. that glint in your eye 

13. late night calls my parents didn't know about 

14. happiness tearing out from my chest and wringing me dry