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in our eyes, what we both deny.
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LOVE AND OTHER RELATED BULLSHIT
Refractions
Am I really better in your eyes than my own?
will you still like me after you've stamped your version of me all over?
Do you think it will fit like a comfortable skin, silken to the touch?
That I won't be a snake,
who, out grows and sheds every version you have of me?
I like snakes.
They don't pretend to be anything other than what they are
No matter how you contain or treat them,
they always demand a certain respect,
that a muscularly powerful twitch,
can easily validate
And yet here you are,
liking that incomplete notion of me
The glint in my eye, the openness of my soul
My simple imperfect honesty
that I am wholly and completely reconciled in
basking with glorious rapture in freedom of
And still you want to change me and
take it all away?
Even crazier still,
I let you...
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Am I really better in your eyes than my own?
That you will stil like me after you've stamped your version of me all over?
Do you think it will fit like a comfortable skin, silken to the touch?
That I won't be a snake who outgrows every version you have of me?
I like snakes.
They don't pretend to be anything other than what they are.
No matter how you contain or treat them,
they always demand a certain respect
that a muscularly powerful twitch
can easily validate
And yet, here you are,
liking that incomplete notion of me,
that I am wholly and completely reconciled in
basking with glorious rapture at the freedom in it!
And still, you want to take it all away?
even crazier still,
I let you.
Love changes everything ;)
Love changes everything ;)
Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS
"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."
The human, by nature
Is irreverently fluid, and subject to change, so by happenstance alone, every version of you is both acceptable and to be admired, despite which skin you're presented in.
"Music is a universal language and needs not be translated. With it, soul speaks to soul" - Songsterr
it seems everybody wants to
it seems everybody wants to change you into their perception of what they think you should be
great point
ron parrish
Resistence Is Futile
(where have I heard that before) With each encounter, we change, with each breath, each new song, each smile, each touch. It's a human thing. Nice topic well executed - allets-