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Chains and Graces in Sunny Places

I can live and breath,
But not with their faces on my mind.
I could but I can't with this uneasy feeling
That one or two of them have forgotten me
More or less successfully.

They were friends and sisters
But not always girlfriends.
And they were all like blisters
That'd pop and leave a sharp sting
For every step that I took to get away.

I figured I just needed a plan
And at times I didn't.
And maybe I grew up and started walking
When the rest of the world around me
Just chilled and stood still.

Maybe I became jaded.
Maybe I'm freer now then I was back then
Or maybe I just got caught up in my memories
So that I just tightened my chains.

Maybe it scares me that I'm not on their minds
And I became part of the past I tried to make them.
Maybe I got confused with something real and something passing.
Maybe I stick too close to thoughts
That I force to become everlasting.

Maybe I was needy
And maybe for awhile I was a hero to a girl I loved.
And maybe Lois Lane grew up and started seeing other people.
I wonder how Superman took the news when he was only Clark Kent.

But I'm only waiting for something to remind me
Why I was so close to them and why I can't let go
Cause I'm still convinced that there's more
Than memories of their faces in ancient places.

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I can't shake this little feeling

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  • shelly webster
    August 1, 2008

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    oh my god! i LOVED this piece! there was so much truth and every line.. it was almost bleeding a sort of apathy, which is ironic because that's the absence of emotion.. but goddamn, i know how this feels. its almost as if you gotta ask yourself.. at what point did i leave the path that everyone else was on? where did i leave everyone behind? and it backfires, you try so hard to forget but then you end up remembering, clinging to memories, getting lost in the past.. "Maybe it scares me that I'm not on their minds
    And I became part of the past I tried to make them." IT IS SO TRUE!!! ive been there. i know EXACTLY what that feels like.. this whole piece was just like a flashback of a former self. I don't even know what else to say.. im just in awe.

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