Begin Again - Blog Posts
There are endings, and there are endings.
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It was snowing, I think, that last day. Snowing the way it hadn’t yet, that year.
The thing with snow:
It wipes away everything you’ve left behind,
Buries it,
like a pirate burying hoarded gold.
We lay down our half-finished hopes, the midnight musings we’d incanted into streetlight-lit hollowness.
Hello! we cried. We are here. We are
Here,
Like footprints in the mud and the branches of a fallen tree jutting up from the ground, we are
Here.
There was moonlight, stealing away our
whispers
like the wind borrows secrets,
like a faerie steals a child.
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Count down from five, love.
The snow is falling, and the stars are bright, and
the moon is listening.
Count down from five—
promise me you’ll remember this is not the
ending it seems to be.
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—this is what it means to begin (y.c.)
Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
• You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start over where you are and change the ending •
C.S.Lewis
One of my favourite movie of all time!
Begin Again (2013), dir. John Carney
Our Love Has More Power
When your emails
Got replaced with college’s attempting to get in my league
You were my first home run
You got me in the sweet spot at the right time
Classroom peeking
Our love has more power over us than the authorities do
No police can keep us safe
No jailers will ever get a piece of our lonely hearts
Should I begin this over again?
I wouldn’t mind someone who was big and cozy
You are boney and nosey
Should I go through?
When you jokingly say
That sitting next to you in the cafe is my favorite part of the day
Should I continue?
Watching my future heart die
I'm not sure I'm ready to let it retry
Or should I stay open and ready,
For my knight in shining armor?
The one who will charm her
Should I start this all over?
Just for another taste of happiness that’s so sweet
Knowing the end will hurt more than it does now; Raw endings are not something I want to meet
I couldn’t be normal for you
It’s not allowed with me
But someday we will escape
And we shall be the idiots that we didn’t get to be
I'm not afraid to lose myself
I know you will always find me
Let’s add insult to injury to all the authorities of our life
They deserve it
