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Published: May 5, 2009

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Literature Text

_{i. you are a mish-mash
of never-ending smiles and toxic beauty.
you're a tangle of scattered thoughts
and makeshift perfection; you make
the seven wonders of the world jealous.

"maybe someday arrows
will guide us through the milky way, and we'll use
the stars as stepping stones."

"we'll play hopscotch in the sky, surrounded by
little fragments of dreams that dancers
forgot to remember."

ii. you're the displacement in a
chemical reaction; you're the magnesium,
and i'm mercury (only liquid at room
temperature,
too close to the sun for life to
exist,
and the messenger they loved to
shoot).

you are a butterfly's wings
when it discovers its new skin,
somehow more beautiful in that
single moment than for the rest of its
life. you loved to dissect them:

"maybe if I study them for long enough,
I’ll be able to figure out how to
fly someday."

i already found out flying
is overrated, but i won’t ruin
your dreams.

iii. dirt and crumpled paper airplanes
clog your ribs. on them are all
the words you forced yourself to swallow
instead of spitting them back
at the world (we call home).

sometimes i wish you would cough up
a spare 'beautiful'
and place it in my hand

"maybe someday my heart will find
a new song to sing. i'm tired of rewinding
when i know i'll forget to press play."

iv. kiss kiss kiss, hug hug
cry. leave me alone and you wonder why.
the universe is spinning, and
you're standing still. don't you know
that when the music plays,
you're supposed to dance?
(or did no-one ever teach you how to
play?)

you start off with a maybe and
end with a never. sometimes i wonder
if you are my stormy weather. but then
i shake it off; you're my bittersweet
balcony, overlooking the sky; you're the
momentary moments and the silences where
you don't know why; you're

"maybe one day i'll have enough words
to describe you."

"maybe one day you'll realise that 'nothing'
is a powerful enough word."}