Give Me A Room In Paris

She had an uncanny energy for life

thankful for every little miracle it bestowed—

and it made her

entirely impossible

to live without.

xx Atticus

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“Leisure” by W. H. Davies

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

 

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

 

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

 

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

 

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance.

 

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began.

 

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

xx Atticus

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She wasn’t happy or sad,

in love or out of love,

she was just there

existing

in the ebb and flow of life—

and that was a dangerous place to be

but her worst mistake

was forgetting to remember

there was more.

xx Atticus

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In the mornings

she taught me French

and after breakfast she would paint

and I would write

and as the spring rain fell on the skylight

and the tea steamed from its mugs

my heart hummed

to the music

of the dream

we’d found.

xx Atticus

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"i carry your heart with me" by e e cummings 

i carry your heart with me

(i carry it in my heart)

i am never without it

(anywhere i go you go,my dear; 

and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear no fate

(for you are my fate,my sweet)

i want no world

(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;

which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart 

(i carry it in my heart) 

xx Atticus

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Does the sun promise to shine?

No, but it will—

even behind the darkest clouds,

and no promise

will make it shine longer or brighter

for that is its fate,

to burn until it can burn no more.

To love you is not my promise

but my fate—

to burn for you

until I can burn no more

xx Atticus

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All life is a revolt against death

and all revolts are eventually quelled.

The question is:

in those moments

with a rock in your hand

and tear gas in your eyes

can you smile to the fates

stand tall

and

make your voice heard?

xx Atticus

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On those nights

when the thick snow drifts

through moonlight

and the sky looks like falling stars

close your eyes

look up

tongue out to the  gods

and feel the cool ash burn you.

xx Atticus

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"Out Here On This Very Day” by Prince Neptune (Cody Simpson)

 

Out here on this very day

We journey further into the illusion

Adrift in the great dream

Yearning for entry into the severed realm

Do you know that the death of earth soon come?

Do you know the progress of destruction?

Do you know the strange new topography of the coast?

Life closes in slowly around us

And we seek salvation in copulation

In drugs

And by sunset we ascend

Only to find that our minds

And our bodies

Weren't ours at all.


Follow Prince Neptune @princeneptunepoetand @codysimpson
 

xx Atticus

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"I Have Fallen" by Christopher Poindexter
 

I have fallen

in love many times.

Have you ever sat in a bar

and watched a lonely man

or woman by themselves,

their tired eyes shaken,

fixed on nothing but

the glass in front of them?

Can't you taste their sadness

from across the room?

Those people.

I fall in love

with those people.

To me there are few things

more real.

Follow Christopher @christopherpoindexter

xx Atticus

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