Galaxies
Just because I say I’m numb; it doesn’t mean your words can’t hurt
Just because I say I’m alone doesn’t mean I don’t like it this way
Just because the stars aren’t showing me the way doesn’t mean I’ll be lost forever
It just means they’re giving me time to draw my own maps
That’s why I have an atlas of the world and astrology patterns traced in my skin
Universes written in simple, straight lines and dreams that never materialized
Fragments of a galaxy that I had all figured out, but then it fractured
So I stand here among broken planets and wait for someone
Maybe Buzz Lightyear, to save the day
But then I realize that’s the importance of life, that I don’t need someone to paste it all back together again
That’s why we have thirty-three bones running down our backs
To support us and mobilize us so we can run
Run from everything that drags you down, and when people try to stop you
You knock them over and you push them away
Because you’re blazing your own path, your own trail
So that one day someone will follow those footsteps because they’re lost
And because at some point, they carved the exact same map in their arm that we did For reasons of their own or reasons just like yours and mine
And we’ll be the lights along their path; because when your own heartbeat fails you
You keep that beat going for the day when someone else’s fails them
So you can be there to stand them up and show them the way
Because you’ve been there all your life, waiting just to point them in the right direction
(copyright 2013 AMRG3)