#papertowns

With their fancy cars and their broken young love.

Their big parties with coke for beer

and getting high on some make-believe drugs.

These are paper people and this a paper town

Don't get attached, it all burns down.

Best friends turn to strangers without so much as a last goodbye

And all your friends will be way too drunk on this make-believe to save your life.

Nobody cares if you go home with a broken heart

As long as you know the Pythagoras theorem and get good marks.

Nobody cares about you or your trauma poetry

As long as you are good at physics and chemistry.

Nobody cares about your pronouns or your gender or your name

As long as you fit into their box, a straight girl with straight As.

You will watch it all turn to ash,

Tears in your eyes and a lighter in your hand,

Because all things, tragic or not,

Always have an end,

Because looking like the garden of Eden