ELI

Here’s what our teachers never taught us: We are puzzles with chipped pieces that do not always fit. a game never to be completely finished, let alone won. 
 And, while the corners are always easily found,   you’re going to have to struggle   with the ambiguous mass in between only until you realize: 
 It did never 
 Will ever Should never; Reflect the confined picture on the box. You will fall in love   with a marvelous, ferocious, wickedly electrifying human being, 
 which will turn the wildest thunderstorms into light summer mists,   making you wonder   why you ever brought that umbrella at all. You will grow apart from most friends. More often than not your paths will never meet again. 
 sad truth. More often apart. 
 Yet, you will learn 
 the necessity of imminent & inevitable change. And maybe your tangled roots will cross again. Maybe, because lost roots always find each other again eventuall...

Runaway with me. To a place where we can be alone, At peace. Fuck this city, it's getting so cold. And all I need is you with me, To keep me warm. Runaway... Runaway with me. To a place where we can be alone, So far from home. I know you got family, so do I. But we're grown and they can live without us for a while. So, runaway... Runaway with me. Runaway from this crazy place. I know you don't wanna leave, But I also know you don't wanna stay... And if I can do better, You can do better too. So runaway with me, In this city we have no use.  we gotta move; on. Runaway,  with me.

‘#CityLeftFloating’ I measure every grief I meet with narrow eyes, That’re never dry because tears well every time. I wonder if their pain’s like mine, just a larger size. Pains deep like the ocean - How a city’s left floatin’. On tears for a man that was only twenty one years old. They did that man wrong, man that was so cold. Are we the next Chicago?  DC? Or Philly? I remember when DE used to not be so chilly. But people’s hearts turn cold though; They don’t care, no, they don’t care. He had a family back home but they wanted him gone… These are just my thoughts, finally getting organized, Don’t know if someone gon’ feel me. but this is how i feel inside.  Heard everything has a reason, Heard that time can heal me. Will it? Cause I feel the same way I felt when I got the memo and my heart melted... I don’t know the heartbreak that persists behind your smile. I do know no mother in the world ever wants to bur...

"Away from the comfort zone" Going away from the comfort zone of home; I roamed, the world, restlessly / relentlessly wanting a change, and now that it's come, I want things to remain; The same. Grown accustomed to being here in this city. Stuck in this same place since birth, Its gon hurt when I leave it; Like a gash from the glass when I was so stupid and stepped on the fucking table. Foolish. But that was life as a kid. "You gotta live, love, & learn." Playing with fire, bet you gonna get burned. Or playing with glass better know you gonna get cut. Crazy, my brain still got the wounds no matter how much I try to patch that shit up. Leaving home. Far from the streets that I've roamed. To a place where don't anybody know me.  I'm all by my lonely. 16 hours away; missing family like cray. But I know deep down, really I can't stay. I gotta go. I gotta go. I signed the line. I...