threads of life.

A place to display words, thoughts, fashion, and images that inspire me.

[tracimarielee]

You said "don't go changing,

I'll rearrange to let you in.

And I'll be your historian.

And you'll be mine.

And I'll fill pages of scribbled ink.

Hoping the words carry meaning".

Then one day, the motorcade

Covered in flower wreaths,

First in a big parade

Will come to take one of us away.

Leaving the other with plenty to read.

This is what I want to talk about,

But somehow the words will not leave my mouth.

Was I most complete at the beginning or the bow?

If past you were to meet future me,

Would you be holding me here and now?

[tracimarielee]

You haven't been good for long,

Is it the sound of your own thoughts?

That always keeps you up at night?

Maybe it's time to say goodbye.

'Cause I'm getting pretty fucking tired.

You haven't felt right for days.

Is it the fact you never say?

What comes in your mind that day?

Maybe it's time to shut away.

'Cause I've never really felt okay.

'Cause I've been eating less all day,

To give my brain some extra space to think.

'Bout all the things to do to help,

Distract me from the rude of heart.

[tracimarielee]

I should have known why I loved,

Driving through the cactus fields,

Or wearing white leather gloves.

Admiring the virgin,

As she stands upon the moon.

Oh grandmother,

Did you have to say?

Sometimes life,

Well it just turns out that way?

Waiting for a boy.

Waiting for a train.

Waiting on something to,

Make you feel again.

All of the girls,

Lined up the stairs.

Dressed like queens and princesses,

With jewels in their hair.

Wrapped up in old furs,

You gave to us that night.

We were the midnight fireworks.

We blazed in a New Year sky.

[tracimarielee]

Don't you know someday, somebody will come and find you?

If you don't know who you are anymore, they will remind you.

We don't see you around here anymore, it's okay.

I will say your name out loud, and you will be home.

What you think I am, it's never been me.

I get so far, so fast.

I get so far, so fast.

I get so far, so fast.

[tracimarielee]

Letting you go, while desperately trying to hold on. 🌸

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“If someone isn’t available during your most crucial time, then their presence any other time is useless.”

—

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Freedom begins in the mind. Release the chains of past conditioning, one belief at a time. Let go of every thought that makes you feel small.”

—

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Sometimes you just need to go off the grid and get your soul right.”

—

[tracimarielee]

My soul once was blessed,

But it didn't take I guess.

So I'll deal, with what I have left.

[tracimarielee]

Maybe she's gone, and I can't resurrect her.

The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her.

[tracimarielee]

...but for [him] she was as easy to recognize in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around. / The place where she stood seemed to him unapproachably holy, and there was a moment when he almost went away - he was so filled with awe. / He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

[purplebuddhaproject]

“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

— Haruki Murakami (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“I used to build dreams about you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[tracimarielee]

Should you survive the fall,

From branches we have climbed.

And lost yourself in years,

The ones we left behind.

Should rivers run between,

Your frozen heart and mine.

And words we spoke so young,

Were cast before our time.

I’ll come for you,

If you want me to.

I’ll come for you,

If you want me to.

I’ll come for you,

If you want me to.

[tracimarielee]

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[tracimarielee]

And all the while I'll know we're fucked,

And not getting unfucked soon.

When we get home we're bigger strangers than we've ever been before.

We're too old,

We're not old, old at all.

Just too old.

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I’m attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.”

— Susan Sontag