Look at you.
You're young,
and you're scared.
Why are you so scared?
Stop being paralyzed.
Stop swallowing your words.
Stop caring what other people think.
Wear what you want.
Say what you want .
Listen to the music you want to listen to.
Play it loud as fuck and dance to it.
Go out for a drive at midnight and forget
that you have school the next day .
Stop waiting for 'one day' .
Live now.
Do it now.
Take risks.
Tell secrets.
This life is yours.
When are you going to realize that you
can do whatever you want?
It's a new year,
live fearlessly.

Maybe love is surprising the one you care about
with pancakes early in the morning.
If it is,
then I am one really lucky (and well-loved) girl.

forever is such a scary place

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery —
air, trees, cars, people.
I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."
 

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
I think I made you up inside my head .

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
and arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
and sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
I think I made you up inside my head.

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
exit seraphim and Satan's men .
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
but I grow old and I forget your name.
I think I made you up inside my head.

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
at least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead .
I think I made you up inside my head.