Sunday, May 20, 2007
rewind.
okay friday was elections. i actually wanted to post this earlier, but was too tired/sianded to do so. anyway, congratz to the new comm (well none of you really visit here anyway) and hopefully they'll do a good job. as to those who didn't make it, well i guess i could say i was there before, having missed out on chair last year, something i really wanted. but then, everyone's different. so i thought i'd share something i wrote last year after that failed elections:
The Old Saying
The old saying's wrong.
You don't fall among the stars
When you miss that lunar stop.
Gravity just pulls you back to earth
At 9.81 ms^-2 (that's to 3.s.f.)
Well there are clouds there, of course
To cushion that long
fall down. But little wisps
of nothingness
do little when terminal velocity kicks in.
I guess I'll just enjoy the long ride down
(Go with the flow, as they all say)
And while I'm falling I'll figure out
Just how big that impact crater'll be
And just how many pieces
I'll be in.
okay not too good a poem i must admit. but the bottom line i realised is this: those 'little wisps of nothingness' - your good friends, soulmates, or whatever - really can help to catch you when you fall. so yeah.
of course, those of you who just wanna emo out, here's a song for you:
Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer
She smiled in a big way, the way a girl like that smiles
When the world is hers and she held your eyes
Out in the breezeway down by the shore in the lazy summer
And she pulled you in, and she bit your lip, and she made you hers
She looked deep into you as you lay together quiet in the grasp of dusk and summer
But you've already lost
When you only had barely enough to hang on
And she combed your hair, and she kissed your teeth
And she made you better than you'd been before
She told you bad things you wished you could change in the lazy summer
And she told you, laughing down to her core, so she would not cry as she lay in your lap
She said "nobody here can live forever, quiet in the grasp of dusk and summer"
But you've already lost
When you only had barely enough to hang on
She said, "no one is alone the way you are alone"
And you held her looser than you would have if you ever could have known
Some things tie your life together, slender threads and things to treasure
Days like that should last and last and last
But you've already lostWhen you only had barely enough of her to hang on
stained with coffee at 10:48 PM
