Because I said so

Heavy When your hands are over your eyes You can hear your heart beat louder Clearer Harder It's heavy When your mouth is closed You can hear the words of another so clearly You can feel their pain so easily You can understand willingly Light As you listen to the words Tap your feet Close your eyes Bob you head Sway your hips Bite your lip It's lighter The Pain Easier To breathe

When it's blood Sweat Tears My natural hair is all frizzed up. My pores all open. My mind racing. Heart pounding. It's either you or me. Now or never. All in? Then you fail. Second chance. You back at it. This time harder than before Or maybe you're softer. Its wearing you thin. This love. Giving up is way easier than trying. You push only so they can pull. Cry only so they can wipe your tears. Do it all over, every time... So they can hurt you again. Unconditional love.

You're just now falling I've already fell You've come upon the ledge I've sunk to the very bottom You can turn around and see the beginning Things are blurry and I can only see the end It's bright where you are I'm surrounded by darkness The birds are chirping in your ears Silence... engulfs me There are still options for you Which route will you take I don't remember if I had a choice Of course I did, but my decision didn't take as long as yours

Why do people get married? Because they love each other and they found the person they want to spend the rest of their life with Why do people get divorced? Because they can't stand to be attached to that person another moment Why is the divorce rate half of the marriage rate? Why vow your love and life to someone who you doubt? Because no one really changes over night... You saw these signs before but love had a haze over your eyes? Or did you have your own hands over your own eyes?

When mothers and fathers don't do their job parents they become sperm donors in my book Just someone to pull features and bad habits from No one of importance When fathers don't play their role in a child's life early on the child despises them and never fully accepts them in their adult life The child, if female longs for her father and often blames herself for the distance between them The child, if male, vows to never treat their child how their father treated them When mothers don't play their role in their child's life early on the child becomes their own person without them Then when the mother returns and tries to establish a parental relationship the child declines and the mother is forced to be a frien-emy (friend+enemy) When that male child becomes an adult it will be hard for them to appreciate a woman because their mother was never there to show them how to do such a thing It will be easy for them confide in older male friends as they are trying to find...