arrrrrr
how could I have hated you for so long
when you didn't know how to love
not because
what do we do
when we grieve for a path not taken
for a life we could have had
used to have maybe
but
through the glass
is this where I thought i'd be
I always dreamed of a perfect girlfriend
strolling down the NYC
mirrored morning
when we wake up
we think of ourselves as beautiful, successful, the best
when we see ourselves in the mirror
do we need therapy
do we need therapy
or do we need to live in reality
we want to talk
because we're
i yelled
I know it was only a story you were telling
and I shouldn't have cut you off like
the things we fear
"who is he?" I asked, "the guy who lives next door?"
"he's a
i'm sorry, dad, for both of us
you once said to me when I was a kid, "what happened, we used to be buds"
and
this time
this time I will go slower
I won't write off a day
i'll know that the
yelling at a figment of our father
they are huge presences in our lives
as kids we look up to them in so many ways
in ways