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I dreaht
Wow
This girl
In e of a cliff
Looking down over a vast, barren valley below
I wasn’t wearing any shoes and the rocks were cru beneath my toes
It would have been so easy to take a step back,
To e,
Away from a certain inevitable life that had somehow been determined for me
a life that had somehow become my only option
It had been my life for two years and I accepted that
I had not embraced it,
But I had accepted it
It here I belonged
As much as it didn’t appeal to me, as much as I yearned for the rivers and mountains and trees,
As s
To hear theirpoetry?
It was apparent that what I yearned for
wasn’t decided by me
it was decided forI could do
The only thing I should do
I prepared myself to embrace this life
I sucked it up and took a deep breath I placed an to lower e I burrowedmyself down
Down into the vast,
barren
valley
that had become
my
life
But then
Then this girl
Holy hell, this girl
She appeared out of nowhere, standing directly in front of e of that cliff She looked down at me with her sad eyes that ran a million miles deep
and she sirl sht to h my heart like a ht on top of the other, on top of the other, on top of the other
Straight
Into
My heart
Now this is the part of the drea onot to do it This is the part of the drearab my wrists and brace themselves with their feet as they pulledThis is the part of the dreas for help, doing anything and everything they could to save me
To rescue me
from that
vast,
barren
valley
below
But this girl
This girl wasn’t irl did so even better
First, she sat down on the edge of the cliff and kicked off her shoes and we both watched as they fell and fell and fell and continued to fall until they landed in a heap One shoe right on top of the other in that vast, barren valley below
Then she slid a rubber band off her wrist,
Reached behind her
And pulled her hair
into a knot
And then this girl
This girl
She placed her hands right next to an to lower herself off of it She poked her bare feet into whatever crevice she could find next to ht hand into the cracks between the rocks, then placed her left hand
directly