a thousand memories of smiles,
laughs and kids
just being stupid and reckless
like kids are
and hands held under a watercoloured
sky with cotton candy clouds
and paper birds.
and as the rain falls
it shatters against the windowpane
i curled my hands around yours
even though it was all
crashing down,
i promised you
It was all going to be alright.
We are going to make it through
With scars the markers of our path
It's all we knew.
charging through the parking lot with
music playing so loud
that it hurt our ears
and made the lady swear at us
from inside the protection of her car
she'd never leave because she was
Scared
Of us.
who'd be scared of us?
We're just stupid teenagers.
and the pain of our matching tattoos
COLLAPSE; straight across our knuckles.
the blood as it bubbled to the skin
and mixed with the
ink and became a permanent resident
inside our cracked and weathered skin.
all those memories we were supposed to have made.
don't forget about us, okay?
we're still here for you, after you fall.
and even though you swear
you won't ever
forget
we all know the truth
about us.
about everything.
