i wish i could see you
but you're not here
i wished it a thousand time
but you're still not here
wishin and hoping and coming up with nothing.
i guess what im feeling is that i need a hug.
i have three very important exams in the next two weeks and i already feel underprepared even though i have another week and half to prepare!
surely i have enough time to turn my mindset around! i mean. i want to be confident walking into the exams and the only way im going to feel that way is if am prepared. but so far its not going the way i want it too. the last week at the library i have been very mind wandery. and future introspectionary.
well i've been thinking too much in the wrong direction is what i mean.
i close my eyes and look up at the sky
and when i look back down the world is gone
and i'm in a void
surrounded by blinding lights
and they twinkle a bit, and one of them is red
and so i follow the red one
the red one leads me to a clearing
and the world is back
and im in a clearing
and i walk, faintly i see the red light
and i see it but when i get closer its gone
im on a tight wire somehow
i dont look down i just dont
i look to you because you're there
and you smile and i smile
and you spread your wings
and i spread my arms
and i walk the tight rope
i arrive to your hot breath on my ear
and i wake up and the kitten is licking my ear.
anyway. today i think i realsied that i need to dig it in nexy week. for the boys. and for my future even if i dont really know where im going. i read two books this week for the first time in ages. reading for leisure is like climbing out of boredom... and into a good place. other people's words speak to me of their soul or whatever it is a little bit of their personality. its funny what you can learn about some one , or think you know if you met them from their writing.
we write what we know i guess.
i wonder if people can write without showing their hand. probably people can act like something they're not. writing is a skill though. hmmm!
pig snout, you're out!
mary mary quite contrary
sally sells sea shells on the sea shore
betty botter bought some butter but she said the butters bitter and if she put that butter in her batter it will make her batter bitter, so betty botter bought a bit of better butter to make a bit of better batter!
tennineeightsevensixfivefourthreetwoone
ZERO
blast off
at the speed of light(yeah right?)
t'was the night of the fight
he was ready tensed up and pumped
blood was circulating and his heart thumped
his eyes blinked but his mind was miles away
he was thinking of a girl he'd met here last may
she was nice, and knew when to smile
she was calm, and had great style
her name escaped him but it was near
he could hear it echo, from over there
but his image of her faded to red, a blurry red
he was falling while making a groan like the living dead
this isnt right his head said
get up! its not time for bed
its tennineeightsevensixfive
its time wake up, to be alive
now he knows he's in the ring
that he's figthing something
so he stands ready for war
fist clenched, clenched jaw
his eyes focus and there she is in the crowd
he yells her name but she cant hear
its much to loud
he takes another hit now, but does not go down
he grimaces, and faces this man from out of town
the kind of guy that he's always engaging
the kind of guy that goes down with one swing
one mighty thud of his magnum
to splinter his core, to shatter his sternum
and he yells it now loud and clear
he says jessica i love you, come up here
and she rushes from her seat and into the ring
and they embrace and their hearts share everything
i think people have been in our position, so they know what they're getting when they talk to a graduate!
You're right: we do write what we know. We only ever write what we know. It's been a problem for me particularly because all of my stories end up sounding the same, but I've found that you can be autobiographical without giving everything away. Now, when I write a character, he may be a twentysomething guy from Seattle, but there's a piece of me in everything he does.