NYC Dreaming

For kids like me, New York is the dream.

[meetmeinbrooklyn]

It hurts to think about you. Because my head screams “run” but my heart whispers “home”.

[meetmeinbrooklyn]

“Describe her to me.”

I looked out the window and smiled, “Times Square at midnight.”

[issamomma]

So uuuuhhhh…got my daughter a yogurt this morning and learned something new.

[issamomma]

Guys I just realized they meant there’s a city in Texas called Ding Dong. I thought the people at GoGurt were really like, “DING DONG! WAKE UP SHEEPLE. BIG GOVERNMENT DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW. TEXAS IS REAL. LOOK IT UP. GET THIS TO THE PEOPLE.” Like some big exec at Yoplait is ready to lose his life over exposing a national secret through the medium of childrens’ yogurt snack tubes.

[meetmeinbrooklyn]

I remember everything about that night. Every burn of the alcohol, every speed bump, every brick on that wall. Every time you turned your head to look at me and the way your hair would fly and I swear I can still count every single goosebump when you smiled so so close to my face.

[meetmeinbrooklyn]

You took away a part of me. And I’m not saying I walk around with half a heart or half a soul. I’m saying you stole love and trust and compassion and force fed me fear and doubt and anger. You stole so much of my life already. You don’t get to take anymore.

[meetmeinbrooklyn]

The tears ran down my face burning like acid. “I know..” I whispered “I know it will never be us but sometimes when you laugh or your eyes sparkle when you talk about the things you love I like to pretend that it’s me who makes you that happy.”

[meetmeinbrooklyn]

“It kills me sometimes.” I whispered

“What does?”

“Looking at you and seeing home but knowing you look at me and see a bus stop.”

[i-am-a-fish]

!!!!!!!his name is Gourdon!!

[olruggiio]

do not talk to me or else i WILL cry . fucking try me

[meetmeinbrooklyn]

You came into my life like a strike of lightning and the thunder hasn’t stopped since.

-Excerpt from a book I’ll never write

[lifeinpoetry]

“i laughed today. / for a second i was unhaunted. i was the sun, not light / from some dead star.”

— Danez Smith, from “it began right here,” Don’t Call Us Dead

[eflor]

[sunsetquotes]

“And when you told me what your favorite book was, I bought it and read it over and over… trying to find pieces of you in it.”

— Unknown

[perfectquote]

“I loved you in a way I wished someone would love me.”

— Mahmdou Darwish

[sapphosclown]

CAUSE I STILL FUCKING LOVE YOU

[meetmeinbrooklyn]

Around you I come alive. My heart smiles, my stomach does flips, and my soul sighs with a relief unknown outside of you.

[meetmeinbrooklyn]

I guess I just assumed I had enough love for the both of us.