Tinted Glass Makes Greener Grass

Tonight, the sun sets
On naked trees

With animosity I see
That no-one is truly free
Oh how they try to be

They use
As tools
Faith and free will and
Rules and change and
Death and life everlasting.

Bound to their fate
They can appreciate
All else but their current state.

The Future Responds

Hey man, relax.

You've got it all wrong, but I can't tell you what you've got wrong - you'll figure that out on your own. Just hang in there.

I wish I could say it gets better, but it really doesn't. There'll be plenty of peaks and valleys. That's the point - not all this "having" crap. You don't own anything in life: life owns you. You're born and you die, everything in between is parenthetical.

Don't get all upset about it though. Life is still precious, and you probably don't realize how much of it you're going to miss out on. You never cried enough, never loved enough, never bothered to be vulnerable because you were afraid. Let me tell you, fear is way worse than pain. Pain ends, but fear builds on itself until it has constructed an awesome clockwork apparition that knows no empathy. Pain simply is, but fear is malicious. Don't let it infect you, or you'll lose so much in life that you might as well not have lived at all.

Texting the Future

Hey.

I guess I think that you know what you're doing, where you're going. Maybe you already know and you just refuse to tell me. That's fine. It would be hard anyway.

I don't expect much I guess. Security. Love. Pain. Heartbreak. It's all the same to me. I guess I kind of do know the future already. I just wish I could know exactly what I need to do to get there.

I know what you're thinking. "You don't have to do anything to get to the future, it plods steadily towards you regardless of your attempts to thwart or hasten it." You're only half right. Maybe what the future looks like to you is different. After all, you're already there. Me, I'm still stuck in the past, trying to push through the muck to get to where you are.

I'm so envious of you. You've got everything that I want and don't know how to get. I dunno, maybe that's the point. Maybe I won't ever have everything I want, so I've got to grab what I can get. Maybe having isn't as important as trying.

A Series of Questions Regarding Love and Sex

What is romantic love?

What is the difference between romantic and platonic love?

Does love connect or separate us as individuals?

Is there really a single person with whom you are destined to share the closest bonds of both platonic and romantic love?

Teacher the Talented

Children are amazing!

They are the
Boundless energy of the
Soulless indignity of the
Mindless calamity that we
See.

So forgive not
What will not be forgiven
In you.

Forget not
The important lessons taught
To you.