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To Me by ~ToastedWhiskers:iconToastedWhiskers:

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"It doesn't matter anymore" and "I don't care"
"I can't do it" or "There's no point"
They're all excuses and lies
And you're just running away

There doesn't have to be a point.

Grow the fuck up.
Get back in the game.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Just because we feel like shit doesn't mean we get to hide.

So what if you're not different?
Special?
Loved?

Your life isn't a story.
Your drama is all of your own doing.
So wake up
Step up

Stop.
Fucking.
Hiding.

Love yourself even when you hate everyone else.
You're the only constant in your own life
and even you have to change sometimes.

Recognize this.
The pain isn't everything.
You can't always get by on pity.
And no matter how weird you are
how good of a person you're not
how much you wish you could magically change
it does not
work like
that.

Wake up.
Step up.
Be you.
And stop being so goddamned afraid.

I love you.
Even when I don't.

(Wakeupstepup)
©2009 ~ToastedWhiskers
:icontoastedwhiskers:

Author's Comments

Dear Me,

Wake up, step up, grow up. Be a woman and not a child. Stop hiding. Be you, as horrible and wonderful as you are. And goddamnit, stop being such a coward. Life isn't wonderful- get used to it.

Signed, Me.

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~KeeperoftheWorlds Jan 23, 2009, 1:54:49 PM
Nicely pessimistic and optimistic at the same time.
A poetic rant is always cool. ^^

Although I think this might've been the reason why Gaara from Naruto went into his "mass-murderer-kill-everyone-love-myself" phase...

--
Remember to smile for me! ^^
:icontoastedwhiskers:
~ToastedWhiskers Jan 23, 2009, 1:58:37 PM
You know, you just may be right. Sadly, I have neither the balls nor the abilities to be a mass murderer, so I'll have to find another way to cope, eh?

And it's not really poetry. Just a rant... DA doesn't have a category for that, though, and I had no desire to put this in my Journal. =\ Whatever. I can pretend. xD

--
If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts then we'd all have a bowl of granola!
:iconkeeperoftheworlds:
~KeeperoftheWorlds Jan 23, 2009, 2:09:44 PM
In any case, the society generally seems to dislike, er, mass murderers.
And their opinion matters because they seem to have a 'little' more power than us.
(FBI, anyone?)

Rants and poetry can be considered the same.
And pretending is fun, so you long as you can keep a good check on reality.
(It's not exactly good when you start believing your own lies... generally XD)

--
Remember to smile for me! ^^
:icontoastedwhiskers:
~ToastedWhiskers Jan 23, 2009, 4:09:09 PM
True, that... Although the FBI is a lie. Totally. >> << >> Conspiracy theory anyone? :D

But yes. When they can make you disappear without a trace with a snap of their fingers, the people in higher positions do tend to have a bit of say in what's appropriate.

Oh, but I rather like my lies. *sad* I shall have to start convincing myself that my lies are not true at once. >:0

--
If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts then we'd all have a bowl of granola!
:iconkeeperoftheworlds:
~KeeperoftheWorlds Jan 23, 2009, 4:27:52 PM
Yup. Unfortunately, power really does seem to be everything.
(No wonder how humans can get so greedy XD)

Lies are always nice until you wake up. Then you regret all of them.

And make more!

--
Remember to smile for me! ^^
:icontoastedwhiskers:
~ToastedWhiskers Jan 23, 2009, 4:32:54 PM
No. No, money is everything. Because anyone who has enough money can buy power. The more money you have, the more power you can buy... So it's entirely possible that if you're rich enough you can buy enough power to rule the world. Hellz yes.

Naw. I've got quite a few lies that I haven't regretted yet. They've mostly been for the good of others, though.

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If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts then we'd all have a bowl of granola!
:iconkeeperoftheworlds:
~KeeperoftheWorlds Jan 23, 2009, 5:01:01 PM
Or maybe power and money are sorta equivalent.
Technically, you can have a lot of power without
having money, or have a lot of money without
having power, but either way you have your personal
police force.

I recently realized that a lot of my memories were fake.
Oops, I guessed I did believe my lies when I was a kid...

--
Remember to smile for me! ^^
:icontoastedwhiskers:
~ToastedWhiskers Jan 23, 2009, 5:43:19 PM
xD! I like that. "But either way you have your personal police force." *steals to use in signatures and such*

Well, I think everybody lies to themselves when they're children. I know I have a lot of false memories concerning my father from when I was like... three.

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If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts then we'd all have a bowl of granola!
:iconblazingxsoul:
~BlazingxSoul Jan 23, 2009, 7:55:41 PM
I like this. : D
I agree, pessimistic and optimistic at the same time. <3
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