I close my eyes just to see your face.
Grow up with me.
Let’s run in fields and fear the dark together.
Fall of swings, and burn special things,
and both play outside in bad weather.
Let’s eat badly.
Let’s watch adults drink wine and laugh at their idiocy.
Let’s sit in the back of the car,
making eye contact with strangers driving past,
making them uncomfortable.
Not caring.
Not swearing.
Don’t fuck.
Let’s both reclaim our superpowers;
the ones we all have and lose with our milk teeth.
The ability not to fear social awkwardness.
To panic when locked in the cellar;
still sure there’s something down there.
And while picking from pillows each feather,
let’s both stay away from the edge of the bed,
forcing us closer together.
Let’s sit in public, with ice cream all over both our faces;
sticking our tongues out at passers by.
Let’s cry.
Let’s swim.
Let’s everything.
Let’s not find it funny lest someone falls over.
Classical music is boring.
Poetry baffles us both;
there’s nothing that’s said is what’s meant.
Plays are long, tiresome, sullen, and filled;
with hours that could be spent rolling down hills,
and grazing our knees on cement.
Let’s hear stories and both lose our inocence.
Learn about parents and hforgiveness,
death and morality,
kindness and art,
thus losing both of our innocent hearts,
but at least we won’t do it apart.
Grow up with me.
— Keaton Henson
You have my whole heart. You always did.
Cormac McCarthy / The Road
Margaret Atwood, from a poem titled "Not The Moon," featured in Paper Boat: Selected Poems
Yes baby, I’m rebloging all this for you
“I bump into your ghost
at places it shouldn’t haunt
please leave my new bathroom alone
I can’t stand the smell of sage anymore”
@songfortheghosts
Leila Mottley, from Woke Up No Light; Poems; "what a Black girl wants,"
need to make these
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
— Maya Angelou
Feels when I’m not with you
Keaton Henson