1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

i wrote this in 15 minutes on an inspiration while walking back from my chem class. my poetic side only seems to come out when i listen to mewithoutyou, they have the most amazingly beautiful lyrics ever. check them out if you want to hear awesome music. i hold the rights to this poem, seeing as i wrote it, fyi. i'm used to writing disclaimers from my fanfiction lol..

how is it that we care

so much for our shed hair

when hairs are simply dying cells upon our heads

yet still we vainly try

to dress up the things that die

while living all around the living cry out "let me live!"

just a bar of soap, they beg,

or a place to lay my head,

my throat is like a desert bare of clouds or water

but in vanity we treat

our hair to lathers and repeats

while our hearts lay in the street

slowly growing on our heads

and the water down the drain

flows in the streams and joins the rain

oh god, mercy that my soul not join its song!

to lay down by better waters

makes me want not something else

a stream with firm foundations

set beyond my comprehension