Happy Day

It never fails to amaze me how quickly a year passes, and how much can happen in the duration of one.

I'll keep this short.

2010 has been remarkable. Its been a real eye opener, and in my brief stint on this earth, has so far taught me the most, about others and myself. It hasn't been all rainbows, and sunshine. Parts of it have been hard. Really hard. But through it all, 2010 has left me with a sense of utter bliss, as any year should, and i'll tell you why. No matter what hurdles a year throws at you, how wonderful or awful you feel it has been, look back on each year with fondness, because you're still standing to greet the new one that's approaching.

Resolutions:

1. love more

2. cry more

3. laugh more

4. share more

5. live more

ashes to ashes.

burning bright

we're so hot nothing can touch us

invincible, care free, reckless.

young

we're moving so fast our feet don't touch the tracks

track back, back when life moved slow

and we were young.

and we were learning. and we were growing. and life was shiny and new and bright. warm.

to go back a second, an hour, a day, to those days, when we were fenced in and child proofed and protected. we've neglected the rules that held us in place, kept us safe.

walk don't run.

don't push don't shove.

sticks and stones, that's not fair.

before all was fair in love and...

when was it that we realized that we knew everything, and that the shiny new and bright was ours for the taking, and once we stole it we had to run, run with it not walk because walking wasted time and we didn't have any time because we had places to go and people to see and we were going to see cliffs and dive off them and swim to depths unheard off and drive fast getting there and hey they look good lets take them for a ride and hey that looks like fun yeah i'll give it a try.

it use to be the only shootings were stars. stars burning burning bright.

fire. fire. hot. cause we're running so fast our feet don't touch the tracks and the stars don't shine brighter than us because we are young and we are reckless and we are invincible. and rules couldn't hold us and keep us in because we ran out of those gates so fast no one could catch us and we've been running and taking and jumping and diving and shooting and flying

but what goes up

must come down

and why didn't anyone tell us that

did they tell us that?

before we knew everything did we ever know? had we forgotten?

forgotten that flying

turns to falling

turns to crashing

and that track is closer and coming up faster and the stars are a blur and they're burning so bright

but that light, that fire that burned so hot with so many dreams of places to be and people to see is getting dark. and now its black.

SMACK.

pavement.

not sky.

not.

not.

not anything.

nothing.

because kissing the cut won't erase hurt anymore.

because rockabye baby, our cradles, they broke.

because we were never invincible.

and that was the last lesson we learned.