heatherisaboynow

‘Endure’

Nothing remarks on a blizzard

Like the Eskimo who has survived

Another winter

A stream five inches deep

Can still drown you

And I’m feeling it’s better than before

Better than it’s ever been

The cacti holds the rain

Of the desert like I protect my pain

I live inside an impenetrable fortress

Where nothing can hurt me anymore

In the shadows I’m safe,...
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I feel pity for anyone who plays the game, they must live sad lives.

I can do what I like, say what I like and most importantly, think what I like. Once you make the decision to own your insecurities, no one can use them against you as a means of control.

Why should I care? I don’t wanna.

If you need me I’ll be...
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I set upon this beach
On the morning of my youth
And now—the moon rises
Like the sand, slipping through my hand
On this graveyard afternoon
I am forever changed.
Not for the wearied or the weak
Do I live nor die.

I could count every shell
That has landed by my feet
And now—I turn for home
Like these grains falling down like rain...
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I’ve never been able to talk to interesting people when I go outside. It’s not that I have a fear of doing it, or that I’ve never wanted to.

It’s just that when I’m outside in the strangers’ planet, where I’m not safe, I exist in a completely different universe than everybody else. I get extremely anxious with a heightened sense of danger which paralyses...
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‘Give Us A Chance’

Picture us standing here

With nothing but raw attraction

No house, no career. Just us

Like it used to be

That’s what we’re fighting for now

That youthful spirit that says

We can make it if we try

They say we can never go back

But they’re fools, we can

If you just give us a chance

I’ve never trusted in...
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