let’s just stop time so i can read all my books without real life interfering
every time I try to write something silly it's not long before things get mildly serious and the tone changes
but I want to channel my inner child and forget all that, I want to write something fun without overthinking
“The bottom line is this: You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it…If there is no moral question, there is no reason to write. I’m an old-fashioned writer and, despite the odds, I want to change the world”
— James Baldwin
DATE WITH FATE
To live, to see your face in the future
One day will all be worth it. I know you
Will bring me COUNTLESS smiles, so all the
Hard work now is worth it and brings me one
Step closer to you, to know one day I will
Get to hold your hand again makes
Everything worth it. Someday yeah, but fate
Will bring us together.
didn’t you know you’d get what was coming to you?
oh come on, you had to have known. yet you still decided to act like everyone owed you something, so the world gave you it— not what you wanted but what you deserved.
i write this for you— but to say your name would give you too much power.
you’ll be buried and the world will spin on
you’ll be worm food and we will forget you, however our dna won’t. not till we break the cycle.
its mary shelley summer
Looking through old photos and I found one of my junior homecoming dance. It was the night after my dad's funeral. My friend who'd stayed with me the entire week, in my bed, through all the tears, made me get out of bed that night. She pulled my shirt up over my head and told me to get in the shower. She washed my hair for me. She curled it. She rubbed foundation onto my face, lined my eyes, and put me in my dress.
She contacted my other friends who were feeling awkward and unsure of what to do and told them the party was still on, to meet at my house for photos before the dance.
They all showed up, and I went to the dance, and we all screamed and cried, and I took my first step to healing.
I haven't spoken to that girl in five years. Nothing happened. I moved away. She fell in love. We grew apart and into our own lives.
It's strikes me how beautiful the ephermeral nature of teenage friendships can be.
We may not need each other now, but there was a time when I needed her more than anyone. And sometimes she needed me.
And the universe put us together just then. Just when it was most important. Not a year too late or too soon. The same town, the same school, the same classroom where we could meet. Right when it mattered.
We come and go from people's lives every day, and along the way we may get a chance to love someone fully, just for a little while.
I'll remember every single one.
MOONS
Tale of two moons, the one in the sky
And the one in the sea, and
That’s the way it’ll always be
Heart to heart
Eye to eye
Hands apart, and then They slowly pry
In this dream, you are in a pit.
It surrounds you in pitch black.
Its mouth swallows you whole.
Effortlessly, you sat comfortably in your hole, like it had a hold on you
You sometimes climb, but then you fall like you had no care at all, then you try and try again but only get stuck with your feet buried in the sand.
You are in this constant battle with yourself
while a blindfold covers your eyes tightly
I wish you could see what you mean to me
There’s a snake in the pit that grasps on to you
day by day you decline my desires
my desire for you to reach out, my desire for you to hold on
the stench of dirt that covers you from head to toe and your brown eyes that fight to stay open
they blink and blink with the strength of a human
Please don’t let go.
don’t let go of the red balloon
everyone: what's your goal in life?
me: to write a story so soul snatching, so gut wrenching and so devastatingly beautiful that it leaves you crying at 3am when you have a 8am lecture/shift and it inspires people to write entire essays, to write entire fanfics, mood boards and playlists based on it.
N.
How to describe someone time isn’t a friend of-
Fate knows your name,
It’s strong, your strong. In your arms, I feel safe,
Until we let go
Music turned all the way up
The only song I wanted to hear was your heart
Harmonious, a voice so sweet to the ears
Fate might not be our friend,
But time knows our name and dammit it demands it so mockingly,
Like a threat.
Dare we prove fate wrong and test the stars? We’ll test the boundaries of life itself.
Words[poetry, flash fiction, novels] and worlds from a writer called Lu. I sometimes post my photography.
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