#powm

Make a ten year plan, Find someone to settle down with, Put down roots, It’s said in a million different ways, but the message is always the same Figure out what you’re doing, Find your life, Settle down here, It’s everywhere, I’m sure everyone has heard it, but I don’t hear any balking I’m not sure why — it makes me I feel I’m going to choke There’s adventure in my soul, and even seven years spent in one place feels like a lifetime Can’t they see that staying put will make me ingrown? That I will carry my roots with me? That what will be growing will be me? I’m not opposed to falling in love, but I’m asking to not wait around while someone gets settled into their career I don’t care if I’m called too picky, I believe that there is someone who will go with me, someone who will give me even more of a reason to go I know that the advice will keep coming, it’s conventional wisdom after all, all fine and good but definitely not for me So I’ll keep waiting and quietly dreaming about my life of adventure, the adventures I will never give up no matter how many times someone tells me to make a ten year plan, find someone to settle down with, put down roots

it won't be the same again i have seen everything change like old dusty films caught in the fire and now, there's no turning back no matter how much I want it to be the other your palms over my eyes you hear the flames from a distance but unlike me you have not missed them I have seen everything I loved reach the end of the reel and I hold photographs close to the breast I hear my heart dully murmur on the line everything before seems so beautiful now the photos of last year are full of light and I smile in memories I have outlived a voice from the heavy haunted a light that never dies in the shadows I feel alone but it's better than feeling lonely the shades of twilight hold you closer than the gifts of yesterday, I still wait to hear you say that by ourselves, we cannot walk far. I still wait to hear you and the way little burning stars flew from the dark and came over me like little darkly lit curtains I still wait to hear you even if nothing will be the same again.