shot ng alak sa bawat beses sabihin ko ang grief. but that is well, bagaman hati tayo sa pag-inom, my soil friend.
wanda, rupaul, at ang bungo ko
i want to talk [and write] about grief
how it breathes in new beginnings
kapag buhay ka, you grieve every day
i grieve everything i didn't do but i wanted to
you carry with you what they gave you
hahah... i kept hoping eh
i kept hoping i would never get here
i kept hoping i would die before i would ever have to reach
but i'm actually legitimately here
Iโm surprised when I do things I still think I canโt do even after theyโre done already. (old line i wrote)
you'd think that with my choosing my own darn life, it'd feel less unreal.
but it is. a real unreal. you don't know what you want until you do, and you don't even know how much and if you really even want it while you do. I am still not expecting to be living.
I didn't expect to be here.
i grieve, actually am, wanting, and doing what i want
which is a cliche right? everyone alive hates their dreams?
but i wanted to talk about grief breathes in new beginnings
the things we grieve - they are what kept us alive even when we did not expect to be
and so, in unexpected new starts,
we automatically begin already grieving
grateful for that sensational breath. heartbroken we are not with the lives who carried us here.
as the saying goes, every ending is a new beginning
i suppose a dream could just be unexpected life that speaks to who a human is
that i could just listen to them more. and somehow at the same time i was the one who died earlier instead.
i'm talking and they're gone
i grieve living with the deaths of who i love
i grieve not being among those who died
i grieve being allowed to do what i wanted
i grieve all this feeling
they gave me and they're not here
grief breathes in new beginnings. beginnings are quite old, i realize now, after thinking for a long time.
i grieve being the old human who remembers who are being forgotten
i grieve how i forgot them while they were with me
i grieve how i'm losing, chipping them away from me, them
i grieve allowing myself to chip them away
i grieve allowing myself life
i grieve allowing them death
grief breathes in old beginnings. "we start." is an illusion. we have always grieved.
us, who live even when we don't always choose it
us, who will never know how they, totally, feel
do you think they think of us as their them too?
us who found them even when we did goddamned everything not to choose
anything, not to choose them
us who chooses them, after
you're still alive but i don't watch you anymore like i did before
i grieve that. i grieve not doing what i want. i grieve not being with my loss of you. i grieve starting... where you are not
i grieve losing you, and only having my grief of you with me now
i grieve still having you
us who found them even when we didn't always want to live
i hope i keep living and that i die with you
you saved me and made life worthwhile. i grieve living with you.