Maya

19, she/her, writes songs sometimes

[mayamuseic]

this song is based off of a poem in j.d.m.’s ( @poetryandthesea ) new book “Poetry and the Sea”! the book is such a beautiful read(i have literally read over each poem at least ten times and i’m not exaggerating), so i couldn’t help but try to make one of her poems a song!

[mayamuseic]

In the dead of night I want to call you so we can dance to the sound of our silence.

dance to our silence

[mayamuseic]

This will pass. This will pass. This will pass. I knew that if I repeated the lie in my head, it would become my truth.

this will pass

[mayamuseic]

As I grow more and more tired the things I say aloud make less and less sense, while the words I write seems to fall onto the paper faster and faster with more clarity that I ever could seem to muster.

clarity in a tired mind

[mayamuseic]

I'm selling off the hours of my life doing something I know I will regret.

selling myself off

[mayamuseic]

Having such a realistic nightmare made me wish I remembered all of them. Maybe then I wouldn’t repeat so many of the mistakes I make in real life.

the realistic nightmares

[mayamuseic]

I really don't think you understand how much I had been waiting for you to do that.

excerpt from a book i’ll never write

[mayamuseic]

I feel relief in that I can laugh in what gave me so much pain before.

relief, pain and laughter

[mayamuseic]

Every time we go down I remember the pattern. The soon tangible relief that will engulf me as we go back up again. The story arch that always end in happiness. That this will soon pass, and will also soon happen again.

#excerpt from a book I’ll never write

[mayamuseic]

After you were gone I grabbed onto the moments I could remember in fear that I would lose you, not even realizing that you would be hiding in the crevices of my world- for there was no need to fear forgetting the unforgettable.

you’re still here

[mayamuseic]

Everything will start to fall into place. The world will return to color. The ice will melt over. The winter will surrender to spring. And you will forget that worries had consumed you mind even once before.

the ice will melt over

[mayamuseic]

Just when you think the world has stopped, it will move again.

excerpt from a book i’ll never write

[mayamuseic]

You'll find inspiration in the wildest of places.

wildest of places

[mayamuseic]

They looked around nervously, “So why are were doing this again?” I cracked my knuckles, loosening my body in preparation. “Because you said we couldn’t.” They sighed, “And why exactly does that mean that we have to this?” “Because you keep drawing lines where there aren’t any.”

excerpt from a book i’ll never write

[mayamuseic]

We were two people that couldn’t possibly be more different: You were a devoted church member, I laughed in the face of god. You found energy in the company others, I found it in their absence. You believed in happy endings, I thought reality was a bitch. And yet for some reason, when we were together we were one person.

together as one

[mayamuseic]

I hope that stars light up your world when everything else grows dark.

[mayamuseic]

You would think that hiding from yourself is hard. Turns out it isn’t.

excerpt from a book I’ll never write