Our future is in the clouds

Next year we Are all going to leave.
We all know its true.

I hear the words in the halls about applying for this and that college.

You're going to be sterling scholar.
Our high school youth will die with our small hands.

We are all going to leave and the only thing left of us will be whispers.

She has places to go and you have people you want to be.

I am sitting beneath a big tree staring into the sky wondering where I will go when I leave.

I am frightened, even terrified.

but We are all still going to leave.
and I'm going to miss it.
 

 

Decisions have to be made now and applications have to be sent asap.

Paris will only be a memory.

I'm begging it to stay, but the clock keeps ticking.

Time keeps disappearing.

We will soon be gone.

 

 

 

Now, High school Heartbreaks aren't as important as your future.

And if you don't know what you want to be, You're damned.

 

I am standing in the middle of a highway full of decisions.

Headlights blind my mind.

Everyone else knows where they are going, but I am in the middle still not sure which way to turn.

We all pretend the future isn't so close.

But it is right under our noses.

 

Keep your heart close.

 

 It is too late to die young.

 

 

 

 

Complaints

Thunder storms need to be longer.

People need to be nicer.

Old people need to live longer.

Music needs to be louder.

Women need more freedom

I need more friends.

Trees need to be taller.

Summers need to be longer.

School needs to be shorter.

The stars need to be closer. 

Car rides need to be more romantic.

Bikes need to be used more.

Forests need to be bigger.

Roofs need to be shorter.

Albums need more songs.

Life needs more lemons.

New York needs to be closer.

Love needs to be louder.

Homosexuality needs to be accepted.

Clothes don't need to define you.

Phones need to be smaller.

The world needs to get along.

Life needs to be easier.

Anything else?

What's the fun in doing what you're told?

I have always wanted to sneak out my window in the middle of the night, but my window is on the second story and I was told that jumping out the window will get you killed,

but what is the fun in that?

When that girl tells you your shoes are way to main stream, wear them anyways.

Sing in the car because everybody else tells you that you're off tune.

Run away.

Don't ever do what you're told.

Don't study, don't go to the football game, and don't ask that boy you hate to saides because they told you to.

where ever you go today, go there for you. 

Not because you were told to. 

You have to start doing things for yourself. 

When they tell you to go fly a kite, fly to the moon instead.

don't wear vogue, don't take any criticism, and don't go to church because they told you to.

And always play your favourite songs on repeat, even when they tell you that you have the worst taste in music.

Never turn down your music.

when we do what we are told, we become robots and robots never die young.

Next time you hear a set of rules, don't obey them. 

Don't go to bed on time because your parents told you to

Always kiss on the first date because they tell you not to

And never do what you're told to. 

Where I got my bricks (ft. don't be another brick)

Please don't be another brick in my wall.

I got a brick from my dads' hard heart and another from my grandmothers wind chimes.

A brick from my failed calculus test and a brick from the flowers you never brought me.

Please don't be another brick in my wall.

I got a brick from the two scars on my left hand and a brick from waiting in line for good concerts.

A brick from your pine scented car and a another brick from my car with the squeaky wheel.

Please don't be another brick in my wall.



I got a brick from the breakfast club and one more from st. elmos fire.

A brick from say anything and another from pretty in pink.

I got a brick from all those family parties and all those unfinished art pieces.

I have bricks from rainy days and bricks from sunny days.

And I have thousands of bricks from endless thunder storms.

Please don't be another brick in my wall.



I got a brick from that bad hair die and those jeans I used to wear ever day.

Please don't be another brick in my wall

I got a brick from a musician and a brick from a poet.

I got a brick from a gypsy and a brick from an adventurer.

Please don't be another brick in my wall.

I have bricks from empty hearts and empty hands.

bricks from a mind full of thoughts and lips full of questions.

Please don't be another brick in my wall.







I have a thousand up turned bricks in my wall and I just hope you aren't one of them.

Don't be just another brick. 





I know why

It's been raining since five in the morning and baby I think I know why.

I think I know why the sun rises in the morning and why the moon only shows at night.

And I think I know why the rain makes me feel infinite.

I want to write it all on the back of a postcard and address it to you because

This world has kept me waiting for far too long, but baby I think I know why.

I have been pacing the kitchen floors and the bath water is over flowing but I think I know why.

I think I know why I still miss you and why we never kissed

And I think I know why words are so powerful and why we love Paris.

And If you want to know why too, take a look outside on a half rainy day.

because I think I know why we can no longer let the world control our thoughts.

At least Not on rain filled days like these.

I don't want to stay a ghost in the rain,

So every time the sky starts to cry, that's when I will know why.

We will all know why.

I believed in love at second sight

This is not a love story.

until I met you, I believed that love was real.

That two halves could make a whole.

my mind was a closed toothpaste factory,

But You turned it into something beautifully unspoken.

You showed me how to think, how to live, how to...love

We destroyed the world with our hand gun,

and our unknown milky disorders combined into one unstoppable love.

Some lovers kiss under the stars

but we explored them.

every touch was a brand new constellation

and we hung onto every star like chandeliers.

we swung across the universe with our hands grasped tightly,

Together we made a galaxy of our own

I started to believe it was love at second sight.

Most people hide their pain in their beauty

but we hid our beauty in our pain

Until I met you, my heart was oblivious to fear.

You showed me what a heartbreak was.

now I cry every time that song plays in my car, especially on rainy Tuesdays

That song that would take us into another dimension full of words without pain.

when that song played, We never thought about tomorrow because our words were the only tomorrow we cared about.

I can't watch the phantom of the opera without turning into a waterfall.

rushing downward, heavily into the past,

and you're the only one who could see through the rushing waters.

Our history isn't as beautiful as I thought it was

and your mystery was the only thing that got to me.

Until I met you, I thought love would save me

but You showed me what a heart ache was.

you never told me your middle name

but I soon figured out it was betrayal

and all I wrote were endings and I drafted the love stories.

My heart sunk a little deeper in my chest

and My teeth sunk a little deeper into a bittersweet end.

You were trying to fix my brokeness, but your eye lids were always closed.

I tried calling you last week,

but you changed your number

so thank you, for showing me that love isn't real

But I still have hope that one day, it will be.

This is For You

     

This is for you.
This is for the daydreamers and the kids without middle names.
This is for the zeros and the heroes.
This is for the ones who stay up late reading sonnets about love.
This is for the midnight wanderers and the party animals.
This is for you.
This is for curious minds and thirsty hearts.
This is for lovers and the fighters.
This is for the hipsters and the acrobats.
This is for the broken and the mended.
This is for Arabella
But most of all
This is for me.