listen, there is a girl in this world who has fallen in love, i would tell you her name but i’m afraid you’d recognize it. when a girl falls in love, it’s a terrible thing, oh girl, guard your heart, i want to say but she’ll never hear it, her heart is a naked pale thing waiting in the rain to be held, when he said 5:00 she thought he meant 5:00, when it’s 6:00 she only thinks, well he’s on his way, somewhere, somewhere, somewhere your love is on his or her way to you. this is what the world tells you. we are all on paths to other people, we don’t know it, but we are walking trudging walking running crawling walking starving towards other people, other loves, other friends, other enemies, other people who will ruin us so deeply we will never forgive them nor forget them. listen. there is a girl who has fallen in love on some near or far continent, listen, this girl is going to smile and she is going to laugh and she is going scream into pillows or into the night, i never asked the world to send me on some shitty path toward love, i never asked for my humanity. listen. love is a terrible and beautiful thing. this girl is going to try so hard to crawl out of her skin, far far far away from her fickle and squeamish heart, she is going to be a madwoman let loose on the streets, she will become a beggar for comfort, a beggar for sanity. a beggar for broken things, forgotten things, things she sees herself in. this girl will become poverty, she will become the broken window in the basement that we never really fixed, i guess we never minded the free air conditioning. listen. this girl will discover this fine line between intimacy and bloodshed gone wrong, she will discover that some people don’t give a damn what the hell comes out of her mouth, if it is stop or please or help me. she will uncover selfishness, she will learn a word called ulterior motives and she will soon learn how to lie. she will become as dark as the people who have shown her darkness. listen. somewhere in the world you can hear a whisper of another person discovering that light isn’t always so pretty and darkness isn’t always so foreign from the world they always thought they have known. listen.