Why?
You think that just because the world is torn like this that you will fall apart too?
All the sad loneliness in you that you know shouldn't be there still is.
You know the loneliness is just the forgetting of what is there.
You know it is there but you don't let it be enough.
You want for something more.
Something you don't need.
The real problem is so childish and silly.
You wish you had someone to love, but you don't.
This makes a poem ruined and sappy.
Phony, because it is typical.
But maybe it's not phony.
Maybe it's typical for a reason.
Maybe it's real.
But wait...
Why?
Why is it real?
maybe it isn't.
Maybe that's just what you do because you are silly.
Why do we so much need this other crap?
Why are we so passionate about feeling sorry for ourselves?
When we have so dang much to be thankful.
And all we think about is the fact that we don't have a "love interest"
Well, poor me, I am a kid and I don't have someone I will love for the rest of my life yet.
Stop thinking about that now.
Just stop letting that become something to be sad for.
The time may come.
For now play outside and dance and help your parents with work projects and
do everything with passion and joy, in contrast to sitting and encouraging your tiredness.
There is so much life we miss out on because our stupid selves are in the way.
"For now play outside and dance and help your parents with work projects and
ReplyDeletedo everything with passion and joy, in contrast to sitting and encouraging your tiredness.
There is so much life we miss out on because our stupid selves are in the way."
i really like this, rachel!! i dunno, there was just definitely something in there somewhere that i really connected to. :) especially that last line, i really feel like that sometimes. i liked how you kind of wrote about both points of view. that was cool :)
p.s. you are very cool too :)
"do everything with passion and joy"
ReplyDeletei really like this part because it shows what Holden wants to do but he cant. People try to do this but they cant and some people try harder but some people give up on it. Holden is the type that gave up. He needed to keep going and leave the past in the past and the future in his sights.