And before I know it The leaves are gone The trees are bare The nights are numb It's winter again. How? How on earth did my legs My hands My face My skin My bones Make it through without realizing another year? When they called, did I even register for an extended warranty?
Updated: Feb 4, 2023
It's like that time of the night
when you have eluded sleep to do something
and now sleep eludes you despite you trying to get a hold of it (I have work in the morning damnit!).
It's like standing in the ocean
in the calmest of waters without realizing
they are not the only danger to you, there are undercurrents (and there go your shades!).
It's like a weekday alarm
going off in the morning like a foghorn after
finding yourself in a sudden drinking binge the night before with friends (now they get curses!).
It's like sipping on a cup of tea
made by your usually naughty child out of suspicious niceness
and realizing there's salt in the tea instead of sugar (why did I ever think he has changed his ways!).
It was all just like that-
sudden,
smothering,
raw,
unexpected,
familiar,
wild,
unwavering.
Did you know there's a life outside
what you know as your life?
This life outside is the real version
of your life,
the one you were never told about
nor realized it existed.
Some of you have found it
but with most,
the tryst with what you have always known
as your life continues.
Remember that feeling from the olden days
when you decided you would grow up
to be an astronaut, a dancer, a scientist,
an artist, a lawyer? That's how your life outside what you know feels like-
filled with immense potential and zeal.
And if you want it, it's yours to have,
just start unlearning what you know to get there.