I've always believed there's no wrong way to be
No right point of view, no right way to see1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrXAHRK9RK
Because obviously there are bad people in the world
But how could I be sure I'm not one of them?
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When did it become a fad to want to die?
When did we start to accumulate this shared experience
of suffering and stuttered apologies
for things we never could have controlled anyways?
How could I explain to my mother the years of breaking skin1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoX6Yuvc8sA
just to feel anything akin to fullness?1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsJG8oviaT
This whole mess I've gotten into of broken promises
and broken people and breaking down on tile floors,
like little parts breaking off of a satellite.
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When I was young I jumped onto the train of
itching every second to complain and run,
because a mentality of "woe is me"
is easier than to accept the flaws I have as human.
I was told that the only way to be mature was to embrace cynicism, 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbjSD7TcaJa
That only the young still have dreams in their heart
That it is worse to fail than never to start.
So I wore my depression like a badge of honor,
my insomnia and antisocial tendencies as some sort of marker
That I was living in the real world.
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But the real world,
the real world is beautiful
and real people are marvelous, 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKeifGtxCMD
And the more I grow, feelings ebb and flow
Like colors of the sunshine on the snow
and the way a river flows with a certain serene calmness
And I finally have something akin to calmness
in that aching thoracic cavity that I allowed to be empty
for so long.
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I used to feel so old, so on top of things
convinced I was better than others because I possessed
a certain degree of suffering within my chest
But I know now that it was an adolescent ruse, 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3aWJUsjyb
a narcissistic choice to choose.1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG7SZpiJf5T
I would rather be dumb than cynical 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33fYmSdx4s
and I would rather be young than antisocial1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJh8Uo77ib
and I would rather be full and happy 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrY7iDOGgc
than anything else in the world. 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeDaTqNoNN
.1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw207fZKNYi
So yes, talk to me. I'll take my earbuds out.1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡucHV3uL9bu
Call me on the phone, let me hear your voice.1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡThhjUQ23j6
Tell me about the new diet you're on, I'm proud of you.1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoxrEyiGS3F
Tell me about the tears that fell from your eyes 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡING8g5NQ2N
at the new soap episode last night.1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUjGho5CzB
Show me the pictures of your kids, 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNqgIxclCQ
they're just growing up so fast, god, aren't we all?1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8tezaxkQ4
Paint me a picture with your words
Against the backdrop of the real world, this is the real world
and oh my god, I'm listening,1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEKmRc4kdm
I've be waiting my entire life to just listen.
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I remind myself, on the haughty days
Where I believe that pain is knowledge
and the world is ugly, and that we are all sheep,
I start to feel the cynicism creep back in around the edges
of my eyes, disguise reality for a picture of darkness,
I remember the way that my mom smiles
when she is standing by the ocean, 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlRS7lCCXh
and the sun is bearing down against waves bearing upon the shore,
and there is no one but the two of us,
nothing but that moment.
How could I tell her that her smiles are wrong?
How could anything so beautiful be wrong?
When I feel my mental disorders trying to tell me
that the world is ugly, I can remember the way it felt 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UmZ8YB7AC
to lay on the wet grass of my backyard in a hot summer rain, 1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrYPrM9Uwe
holding his hand and yelling glee into the skies
feeling everything at once as though the emptiness couldn't get me anymore
The emptiness can't get me anymore.
How could I remember anything else?
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So how could I think of a wrong way to rejoice in the world?1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcRlOBlDpH
How could I take glee as naivete, or happiness as being dull,
There is nothing intelligent about looking into the face of a laughing child
and feeling anything but warmth.
When I took my first steps, people clapped for me.
Why do we ever stop celebrating the little things?
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It is not a sin to be excited about the real world1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7JZqpLidx
Because we as people are small,
and with all of the technology we have, we are still so small.
And when the screens go out we only have as much as we place in each other.1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPrPpQWeHu
It is so easy to feel large, but on foot the world is full of crannies and nooks
so much larger than anything we've ever seen
I thought I'd seen everything, but then I saw the sunset from a different angle,
and everything changed.
How could I ever want to die without seeing that sunset again?
It made me feel so small.
And we are all so small.1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BZBAo5FBU
But that does not mean that we are insignificant.
Because the real world?1007Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06ePP890sV
The real world is extraordinary.
And the people in the real world,
are the most god damn beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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