Asking too much
"I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with."
Mostly they were Joachim Ziemssens, I am a River and they were Lakes.
"Tell me why you loved them, then tell me why they loved you."
They were my Rainbows and I was their Sun.
"Tell me about a day in your life you didn’t think you’d live through."
Every time I had to let a person go (some of them died, some of them just left me)
"Tell me what the word home means to you"
when I hug people I love, I am at home
"And tell me in a way that I’ll know your mother’s name just by the way you describe your bedroom when you were eight."
Her and my name starts in the same way, but her name wants to stay and mine wants to go..
"See, I wanna know the first time you felt the weight of hate and if that day still trembles beneath your bones."
Hate is a very strong word/ feeling, don't you think so?!
"Do you prefer to play in puddles of rain or bounce in bellies of snow?"
Rain. spring rain.
"And if you were to build a snowman, would you rip two branches from a tree to build your snowman arms?"
No, I would look for them on the ground.
"Or would you leave your snowman arm less for the sake of being harmless to the tree?"
If I couldn't, I would left my snowman arm less. I don't want love which ask for destruction.
"And if you would, would you notice how the tree weeps for you because your snowman has no arms to hug you every time you kiss him on the cheek?"
I will find a way to love my snowman without damaging anything/anyone. I will, I know myself.
"Do you kiss your friends on the cheek?"
Yes.
"Do you sleep besides them when they’re sad, even if that makes your lover mad?"
Yes.
"Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?"
I do think that it is a sincere emotion.
"See, I wanna know what you think of your first name."
I don't think that it's my name. Aleksandra suits me more.
"And if you often lie awake at night and imagine your mother’s joy when she spoke it for the very first time."
It's hard for me to imagine that I can bring joy to someone.
"I want you to tell me all the ways you’ve been unkind."
We are not that close :))
"Tell me all the ways you’ve been cruel.
Tell me- knowing that I often picture Gandhi at ten years old beating up little boys at school."
We are not that close :)) Maybe one day.
"If you were walking by a chemical plant, where smoke stacks were filling the sky with dark, black clouds, would you holler, “Poison! Poison! Poison!” really loud or would you whisper, “That cloud looks like a fish, and that cloud looks like a fairy”?
"Poison!"
"Do you believe that Mary was really a virgin?"
I don't think about Mary's virginity
"Do you believe that Moses really parted the sea?"
I don't think about parted seas
"And if you don’t believe in miracles, how would you explain the miracle of my life to me?"
I believe in the miracle of being alive.
"See, I wanna know if you believe in any god, or if you believe in many gods. Or better yet, what gods believe in you."
I do believe in God and I believe God believes in me too.
"And for all the times you’ve knelt before the temple of yourself, have the prayers you’ve asked come true?"
Yes.
"And if they didn’t did you feel denied? And if you felt denied, denied by who[m]?"
I don't feel denied.
"I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good."
Bright eyes.
"I wanna know what you see in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad."
An old woman.
"I wanna know the first person who ever taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a piece of lousy glass."
is their such person?
"If you ever reach enlightenment, would you remember how to laugh?"
I never want to forget how to laugh.
"Have you ever been a song?"
yes.
"Would you think less of me if I told you I have lived my entire life a little off key and I’m not nearly as smart as my poetry. I just plagiarized the thoughts of the people around me who have learned the wisdom of silence."
I love you, without a reason.
"Do you believe that concrete perpetuates violence?
And if you do I want you to tell me of a meadow where my skateboard will soar."
Don't have an answer
"See I wanna know more than what you do for a living.
I wanna know how much of your life you spend just giving.
And if you love yourself enough to also receive sometimes."
I am a beginner at loving (at giving and receiving)
"I wanna know if you bleed sometimes through other people’s wounds."
Always.
"And if you dream sometimes that this life is just a balloon that if you wanted you could pop – but you never would because you’d never want it to stop."
Yes.
"If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it, if it’s fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist or would you just bask in the bliss of your nothingness?"
No.
"And lastly, let me ask you this: if you and I went for a walk, and the entire walk we didn’t talk, do you think that eventually we’d kiss?"
Yes
"No way. That’s asking’ too much – after all, this is only our first date."
Ups.
When The Bough Breaks
(fragments)
"It’s two a.m.
The emergency room psychiatrist looks up from his clipboard
with eyes paid to care
and asks me if I see people who aren’t really there.
I say, “I see people
how the hell am I supposed to know
if they’re really there or not?”
He doesn’t laugh
neither do I.
The math’s not on my side
ten stitches and one lie.
I swear I wasn’t trying to die.
I just wanted to see what my pulse looked like from the inside."
"Do you know children in Palestine fly kites to prove that they are still free?"
"Doctor, our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there.
It’s that we ignore the ones who are."
Royal Heart
"You will never be let down by anyone
more than you will be let down
by the one you love most in the world
it’s how gravity works
it’s why they call it “falling”
it’s why the truth is harder to tell
every year you have more to lose
but you can choose to bury your past
in the garden by the tulips
water it until it’s so alive
it lets go
and you belong to yourself
again"
"It takes so much tremble to love
Every first date is a fucking earthquake"
"I’m never gonna wait
that extra twenty minutes
to text you back
and I’m never gonna play
hard to get
when I know your life
has been hard enough already
When we all know everyone’s life
has been hard enough already"
Gospel Salt
“Forests may be gorgeous
but there’s nothing more alive than a tree
that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”
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