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pen, paper, and pixie dust (To be a Writer)

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Published: Oct 17, 2013

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grow up in the mountains, littered with painted leaves and waterfalls dance your pre-school ballet number and pretend you were a fairy born in Neverland. because reality is painful; you can't fly away from mommy's sick, delusional screams. grow, and grow some more learn that crazy is contagious and insanity is viral as mom gets better and you're the sick one who can't stop screaming. but make sure your screams are silent as you stain your throat a ragged crimson. learn to love the moon lording over an indigo sky because your Neverland is still behind your eyelids when you dream. scribble erase scribble erase scribble, scribble, scribble words in your head are flying away in blots and script and your Neverland becomes your hiding place nestled in mountains and waterfalls between crinkled paper and ink. make fake friends lose them. make one real friend swear to keep her forever no matter what. fall in love but find too soon that a writer's heart is best left broken and bleeding out in ink. learn about depression firsthand how it shrinks your world to the doorstep because stepping beyond that is too damn hard. swear you'll never curse break your promise a little. take a blue pill and step outside anyway. live again. pretend it's because you wanted to and move on. open your eyes. see life, death, and those in-between bits like dreaming. close them again. find the line between the two worlds you've seen: "reality". ignore it _{because it frightens you} because you're a mother and your children are wrapped in swaddling cloth of letters. if you see a world behind and beyond your eyelids congratulations. you're halfway there. all you need is a pen, paper, and words. they don't have to be perfect because you and i are broken, twisted people who might only breathe oxygen to rewrite the need for air beneath a different set of stars.

Hm. A definitely-much-crappier version prompted by the lovely *intricately-ordinary. I admit, poetry is still a new thing to me; I usually write novels. -hides- But, after seeing more of the sort by legends such as =DrippingWords and *0hgravity, I just had to try it. I swear, I'll come back and redo this...someday. Here is my humble offering.

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Yuuricchin

Oct 22, 2013

This is just amazing. Some of the lines you wrote will stay with me for a long while from now on, maybe I'll never forget them!! <3 ;u;