eight days, four years, some days later

you are endlessly fascinating.

{someone to me}

__________

i just don't see it. and the forty seven words you wrote to the three hundred seventeen i wrote, well, those forty seven words said just as much. do you know i'm with someone? maybe that's why you said what you did. maybe that's what made you brave. in any case, i don't know how to reassure you as you did me. i don't know if i can.

__________

i'm counting it out

i'm counting it out

i'm working it out

inside

{sufjan stevens}

__________

are you braver, or am i? i say more, i jump in more readily, but you're one of those who, when you say something, it's really something. at times it leaves me feeling like the straight-A student who had to study her brains out (almost literally) while my classmate would cram for twenty minutes and get a better grade.

all the wind
out of my sails
going somewhere,
but too
slowly

__________

you are . . .

{someone}