And I continue
It's my birthday weekend. Last two nights were a blur but I've got some bug bites and scuffed knees reminding me I went out.
Why am I always standing up for you, kid? I hate when people call you a douche bag because they don't know you like I do. You're such a public being, and I can tell you keep most close; I'll never know it all.
Ugh, no one reads this. But I'll continue regardless.
I'm Haley, I'm now seventeen and I write because I don't have a reason.
It used to be about keeping myself busy, lately it's more keeping myself sane and present.
I can't help it, but I get lonely; I don't have things to touch, taste, break in pieces.
I'm human, there's beauty in that but few take notice.
Time just goes on, I can't wait for the day where it'll stop for me.
Just remembered: time is never taken, given, or borrowed.
And it sure as Hell won't wait for me, it's nice to pretend, though.
I'm still pretty young, making excuses, I still can.
It'd be nice if you took the time to get to know me, I'm not all I'm cracked up to be.
I'm over high school, I just want my city.
Liberation

Drifting floating through my mind mind mind. Doors swing open and I don't need help holdin' them because I've learned how over time.
Hushed voices after dark. Words don't say much of anything because my eyes are yelling about directions to my blue and red lined diagrammed heart. I'm hoping you read it, because few want to know me, know what's real and embrace understanding.
I'm all over the place, pronounced and my tendency is to be messy. I can't really blame them, back when my ego kept me "above" all else. My mind had set itself on that they were thinking I was too busy being busy but the whispers were nice.
People don't think I mean what I say. I mean what I say.
Don't listen to me, look at me. Ironic because I've come to hate the drawing crowd, I'm giving them their moneys worth.
LISTENING TO; HER MORNING ELEGENCE - OREN LAVIE
I couldn't stop complaining about how I had been staring at a blank page for the longest time, nothing to write, nothing to say; oh that was all bullshit! I got this, I got this.
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Take me there. I can't write lately and I'm so wrapped up in the wind carrying me away. I said I wanted to grow up and be happy, unfortunately I'm there and I'm not sure what else to strive for.
Precious

Umbrella

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I know where to start for once
close
Short phrase, tear-filled eyes, walk away.
Get up, run, persuade.
Whisper, yell, at a stand still.
Mind stops, heart accelerates, please.
Closer, closer, hold.
Ramble, lips hushed, kiss.
Pinky promise from Ohio to a beach somewhere.
God dammit, I love the hell out of you.

Sappy, lately
There isn't enough hate in this world to bring me down.
Awake,
You can't stop me. I breathe in and I breathe out and this is the new me.
WHAT MOVIE IS THIS FROM!?
HARPER: People who are lonely, people left alone, sit talking nonsense to the air, imagining… beautiful systems dying, old fixed orders spiraling apart… …everywhere, things are collapsing, lies surfacing, systems of defense giving way…This is why, this is why I shouldn’t be left alone. People are like planets, you need a thick skin. Things get to me. Well look. My dreams are talking back to me… I’m undecided. In the whole entire world, you are the only person, the only person I love or have ever loved. And I love you terribly. Terribly. That’s what’s so awfully, irreducibly real. I can make up anything but I can’t dream that away…
JOE: I’m not going to leave you, Harper.
HARPER: Well maybe not. But I’m going to leave you.
Doug(las)
But lately I'm at an apathetic loss of words; my paragraphs turn into cages, each sentence a bar, each word another lock.
I want to tell you anything and everything, I just have to escape myself first.
Love things like this
2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
11. Dalmatians are born without spots.
12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.
15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).
39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys?
They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil)
44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
Only weakness is _____
Couldn't agree more
But children owe their parents nothing. Not contact. Not respect. Not gratitude. Nothing. Anything parents get along these lines is a gift.
No child ever has any input or agency into whether or not xe is born. Xer life is something xer parents chose (for given values of choosing) to create. In that choosing those parents become responsible for this life until xe is able to live independently or until someone else accepts responsibility for xer. Having a child is ultimately a selfish act and one with enormous consequences. That’s not a bad thing — selfish itself carries no moral weight in any direction — just a thing. It just means parents don’t get to claim their selfish action also places an obligation on the person created by their selfish actions.
Okay. Clearly parents do claim exactly this and social structures back them up on it. But it’s wrong. It’s one more oppressive power structure I want to see burned down."
Invisible Monstaaahz
I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling,
and they’re only a few steps behind you, finding
the flaw, the poor weld, the place where we weren’t
stitched up quite right, the place they could almost
slip right through if the skin wasn’t trying to
keep them out, to keep them here (Richard Siken)
All too much
Naomi: It all means so much to you, doesn’t it?
Cook: What?
Naomi: Life. You just live a bit harder than everybody else does. You splash about. You wallow in it. Like you can’t lose a moment.
Cook: Yeah I’m wallowed.
Cook: The thing is, Naomi, you splash about, other people get wet. I don’t give a fuck or anything, it’s just, you get a bit…you know. Fucks sake, I’m never going to get to bone you, am I?
Jesus Christ
Dotted lines, dotted lines, dotted lines you're running through my mind every day and I love you and all; but you're just a song who needs to mute.
Alabama, Arkansas

105 days, 105 days, 105 beautiful days and if I could travel the world I'd do so with you for another 105 because we'd go from Cleveland to Berlin. For now, I know a million things to say without words and I'm pinky promising I'll stick around for a million more pinky promises. And I'm perfectly fine with that.
"Is this a need or a want"
In simpler terms; the simplest explanation is always the best.
I needed today. I needed a walk. I needed a cry. I needed to get rid of my cigarettes and drown myself in coffee. I needed to write that simple letter with a simple explanation and I'm needing to put it in your mailbox. I'm needing you to understand.
I needed today. With all this needing to benefit my own good, I should say I'm excited. I'm excited to help; excited to give back. I know that I, myself, cannot change this world. But I can sure as hell help. One spark starts a fire and I still feel like the sun.

I could go on and on and on...

My favorite color is red and my favorite bird is blue. I have short stubby fingers and thighs that keep me move move moving. I could never forget my heart because it keeps me in tune when my mind veers off track. The whole world is my native land and you can never keep me in one place. I don't like being touched. It's strange for me to dislike. I just crave it too much and that's a problem. I like cigarettes. And vodka and Stella Artois because I'm simply a picky drinker. I don't think magic fizzles out and excitement doesn't die. I think it's kind of fun to be one of those impossible-to-work-with kind of girl. I have insecurities, I constantly try to pick the minds of others apart and I have a troubled path. I think it's why you're so incredible, you love all of me regardless. People talk to me like they know me, and I play along. The things I say can be (sometimes) humorous and (sometimes) thought-provoking. I love balconies but heights make my heart drop, conundrum. I'm viewed as a candle when I feel like the sun. I just don't burn out and I'm set into a routine. I'm not a bad girl that's been found, I was good and things went wrong along the lines somewhere. I kind of just disappear when things get rough and it feels like I've been asleep my whole life. I have a habit of being very good when I try to be good, but I've got an even better knack for being the greatest at my worst. - cut me off at anytime, I'm back and I want to put down everything.
Untitled
Changed the locks
"leaving is not enough; you must
stay gone. train your heart
like a dog. change the locks
even on the house he’s never
visited. you lucky, lucky girl.
you have an apartment
just your size. a bathtub
full of tea. a heart the size
of Arizona, but not nearly
so arid. don’t wish away
your cracked past, your
crooked toes, your problems
are papier mache puppets
you made or bought because the vendor
at the market was so compelling you just
had to have them. you had to have him.
and you did. and now you pull down
the bridge between your houses,
you make him call before
he visits, you take a lover
for granted, you take
a lover who looks at you
like maybe you are magic. make
the first bottle you consume
in this place a relic. place it
on whatever altar you fashion
with a knife and five cranberries.
don’t lose too much weight.
stupid girls are always trying
to disappear as revenge. and you
are not stupid. you loved a man
with more hands than a parade
of beggars, and here you stand. heart
like a four-poster bed. heart like a canvas.
heart leaking something so strong
they can smell it in the street"
I just need to get this out;
Before the end of 2009, I could not harbor a hatred for anyone who had crossed my path in a vile way. I didn't have it in me, my heart was too big and my head was too far up my ass to know any better. But you, haha, oh YOU. You tore me apart. Into a million little pieces and set them on fire. You watched me burn, you let the life drain out of my eyes. I feel like such a sap for crying about this while putting it down but I had to; I NEED this final closure. I'm sorry, but did you know I didn't sleep for months? Did you know how many weeks I had starved myself because the thought of your voice, your lips, made me weak? Even when I found someone new, you weaseled your way back into my life somehow. It took me a heart-wrenching three months (which, in retrospect, doesn't seem so long) to get over you. But three words was all it took to pull me back, I feel pathetic for falling for it. How could I have been so naive? I knew your game, I knew it well. But was it that little bubble that made my voice crack, whenever I whispered I was okay? Did I want that gone? It spread through me like wild fire and I could just feel myself falling back to you, deeper, and deeper with each word you uttered. I can't say it felt right, at any point in our relationship. Your words struck me like cold water and needles and I loved you too much. "Leave him, you can do so much better" I've said it to others myself, but looking at it from my perspective at the time; that never helped. How could I do better if while I was giving my all, and even that wasn't enough? For two years I knew your name, your favorite foods, knew what would make you angry, knew when you were lying to me. For all that pain you put me through, I can honestly say I love seeing you crumble. You're helpless, and I'm getting a sick pleasure out of watching you squirm. I'm gone, I've been gone. You never knew me, you never cared to either. I've said this before, but your cruel antics to try and take me from the beautiful frequency I have now has finally set things straight. I hate you, I can't say that for anyone else in this world. You broke my trust, my hope, my heart. There is more than enough room for you in this life of mine, but I could not and would not ever invite you back into it. Excuse me for being rash, but I hope you get stuck with someone just like you. I want to see your light burn out just as you watched the waves crash down on me. Too far, too far gone.
Oh, I don't know
:)
Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie, chocolate candy, Jesus Christ, ain't nothing more pleasing me more than you.
Always missing you, wish I had more of this, yaknow.
whoops,lostmyspacebar
When my mind runs in fifty different directions everything is still.
Today
I like today.
Maybe, a little out there
Constantly
I solemnly swear
Think thank thunk

I am so tired of those ashamed.
I love freckles, scars, and bruises and any sort of contusion. I am constantly in wonder of people and bodies and I don't hesitate to share myself with those I connect with. People sharing lips on couches and in ice frosted cars, being hurt and living the pain, finding pieces of smell on clothes reminding you I was there; these are all wonderfully beautiful to me and hiding such sensational thrills is beyond anything I can comprehend.
Why can't others be more like me? I bet that now you see me as a rhetorical asshole, and if that's the case I'd love it said to my face.
Different
I try, I can say that much.
My habits, they're the bane of my existence
and I swear they're holding me down; keeping me here.
But the fact that I'll never know,
says it all.
This road to hell is long enough for me to figure out what's right.

Beautiful
"I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday."
Just for you,
"Like, you go your whole life thinking you know what you want. And then you meet that one person and it's as if you have to question your own existence to be sure you're there in that moment. It's just amazing, everything changes"
This is real with you, I can feel it through your soul and I'm finding myself in your eyes that act as a reflection of my own being. No magic tricks; fog and mirrors. We have our share of secrets but we stand open, "we set no wall."
I feel new, more alive than I have in over a year. I wasn't expecting you, let alone anything. And I guess that's what happens, the ripest of fruit falls from the top; knocks you out senseless. Put all guard down, and feel.
Lullaby, lullaby
Start your dreaming
Kiss the sky
No one comes around this town on the weekends
So you're safe in this bed
You're safe for some time
I'll follow you around this playground
And burn your troubles in the sun
I'll follow you six feet under
And give life back to you
My love
I took care of the kids on the balcony
I gave them tea and dried their eyes
All of your troubles are on top of me
But your troubles are sweet
They're sweet like wine

Over
I feel better than so many people, I'm ready for a fight.
I don't want to understand this world and the people in it. I don't see a point, you're all liars and this is a nightmare.
And when it comes to myself I feel like a stranger day by day, constantly changing. Never the same as when I wake. But I understand, I feel, I know.
Try me.
Old Livejournal nothings;
It's taken me about a year to find out what I want. And that year, well, it really shook me up.
I've said I've wanted something real before, and I simply wasn't ready.
I was young and naive, there was no way I could have prepared for what had hit me so fast.
So here I am, I am whole. I may be a little wrinkled and such, but I am a whole being, that knows what she wants.
I want security and certainty. I want honesty, and devotion.
I want to see my reflection in someone's eye, while they see their heart in mine.
I want everything from you, and nothing more.
I guess I don't want to notice the world around you, whoever you are.
People are ashamed to feel, to show how they feel.
People are happy, but they don't jump up and laugh.
People are sad, but they don't cry out for help.
People are mad, but they don't scream out in anger.
People are loved, but they don't show affection towards their paramour.
They'd rather shuffle their feet, and let their head hang low; than look up and see how beautiful the world around them truly is.
Call me crazy, but I think that's true.
Nostalgia.
It's always creeping in on me, drifting into the corners of my mind, stirring up old memories covered in dust.
I miss how things used to be, even though I'm a much happier person at this point in time, than I was let's say a year or two ago.
So why do I miss something that wasn't the best for me?
That I don't know, but I do know there are times I miss my past.
Do I think that by falling back into that hole, I can fix the things I did?
In the suppressed inter-workings of my mind, I'm sure I do.
But I can't fully admit to that.
I've simply just been thinking.
~Every person I've hurt haunts me at night and I've hurt quite a few people - and I haven't slept my whole life time
~a broken heart can't hold love.
~It scares me, knowing that I've been the one who has hurt myself the most in my lifetime.
It's breaking me, it really is.
~People around you can't comprehend why you do the things you do,
or why you fight so hard for something that seems to cause you so much pain

ugh*
I didn't fight to save the love you never showed me, I just wanted my sanity. Shouldn't you know our fate by now?
This isn't goodbye, this is I hate you.
But I pray to God every night you'll find who's right for you some day, because it isn't me - not anymore.
Not that bad of a person
I've been happy hiding behind my styrofoam coffee cup thinking I'm adored by those who will never know who I really am. The gas station workers and Circle K employees feel like my last hope. I'll listen to the radio, have another cigarette.
Sure, I don't take the greatest care of myself. I don't sleep and I take my pills.
I don't hurt others. I make soup for my family when they're sick. I stand behind my decisions.
I'm glad I'm me, I'm proud of myself.
And I'm fine with the ramble I spit out.
The lack of light
I've got cabin fever in my mind again. This snowfall, it's beautiful but it's keeping me in when I'm meant to be out.

Oh there's words creepin' up my spine, I just can't let 'em out.
:s
Can't help but///

Every part of you is encouraged by the other, beautifully diversified. All dependent on each, hardly fleeting. You're incredible.
the 100th post
Hopefully I'm giving you something to believe in, because you're giving me reasons to sleep at night.
