That Particular Moment

 

You know that moment...

You know that moment in a movie when a cartoon has taken two steps off a cliff, a glass full of water in his hands and he mustn't spill even a single drop. He realizes he can't move forward nor backward and the only option is to fall. Joey looked like that without a puff of smoke. 

He just played video games at our house and then he went home. I once caught Joey in my dad's office staring at the safe in which he knew we kept guns.

Joey once molded his clay toy into a tree with a rope hanging from one of its branches and refused to give a reason why.

I once caught Joey in a Biology class staring at a scapel and a bleeding frog which was the specimen as if he wanted to be the frog itself; sprayed open and bleeding from a blade.

Anyway...

Joey got a promotion yesterday.

Joey can now afford antidepressants. 

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Burnt So Bright When She Was Eighteen

 

I knew someone once...
She had her fire burning so bright when she was eighteen. Most times she only cries now and won't tell anybody why. She spend her nights in bottles; Now she's driving the wrong way. Car going at 95.

She wasn't a rebel growing up; Now she's dancing with the devil. Used to be a face to paint in all forms of examples of a good person. She found hope inside the Bible. Lost hope now suicidal. She's turned to the wine for her survival.

All these...
All these, she says, is simply being subtle.

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Pull Me Out The Car Wreck

 

Pierce my side with a broken promise and I'll bleed out all the reasons why you deserve one more chance

Take my hand through your world and I'll tear apart my bucket list and stay there forever

Pull me out the car wreck 

Stitch every last scar with your love symphony

Lay me on the lustful tongues of your sinful fantasies, give me every single treat you call 'first aid'

Pull me out of that car wreck

Tie my hands to yours and auction us off to your fondest memories

I'm in a wreck

I'm in a car wreck and only memories can save me. 

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'No-Eye' Dear

 

Light at the end of a tunnel is a fallacy, nature wouldn't have been this bias to us the blind

No blessings for those who hurry is exaggerated, Cripples can't always win the game; no nature is fair

  

The world has turned against me, corrupted my mind, made it fall in love with the statement, "suicide can also be the answer" 

Smiling has become a huge magic trick and I'm probably the worst magician I know

I pinch myself so hard whenever it comes just to remind my sanity that I'm still a nobody; cause just when do I smile 

When do I smile... 

Do I smile when I line up for food at the local kiosk and they tell me to skip to the Frontline just because I'm blind? Am I supposed to smile at that?

Do I smile when I go looking for jobs at construction sites, they giggle at my no- vision state and tell me there's no "site/sight".

Was I to smile when, when she came to me at the middle of the night and was like dear I don't see this working out, maybe we should start "seeing different people".  

Brother...

Brother I have a joke for you..

What exactly do you call a blind 'dear'

'No-eye' dear, probably 'no-eye' dear.

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Loved Us More

 

There are these lines... phrases going through his mind over and over again

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That...

I hope that heaven's real so the memories are forever

That one day we'll look back on all of them together

This wasn't what we planned for, I had hopes for us 

We loved looking at the stars fight over which one would shine brightest

The moon claiming it can brighten the earth at night just like the sun did in day

We loved this. We enjoyed this. 

But I loved us more... 

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