When people ask how are you everyone expects to hear I’m doing well
Not but not the kind of well you think, I’m sinking at the bottom of this one
And no one’s got a rope long enough to pull me up.
Not my ghosts are eating me alive.
So you keep your mouth shut tight like a vault even when all the words
want nothing more than to learn the security code
and find their way out like bank robbers.
This is useless currency.
Sometimes even shooting stars take their own bullets.
Sometimes even language learns that it comes with a muzzle-
but what’s the difference between a gun and telling the truth?
The gun comes with a safety.
Sometimes you get so lonely you kiss people who are also lonely
but are just better at letting it be known
because sometimes, kissing is like speaking something
that for once two people understand.
When people ask how are you everyone expects to hear Good
No one expects to hear this is one of those days when
I feel like swallowing an onion whole just so I’ll have an excuse
for all these tears, just so I can come up with something better than
I have allergies so no I’m not really crying,
and by allergies I mean sadness,
and by sadness I mean being allergic to happiness.
So the next time you ask someone
how they’re doing and this person says fine
remember it might just be the last time you’ll see them alive.
titsay
theartofmadeline
tangentwithtanner
blakekathryn
annaxmalina
areudirty
2087
