Accidental Honesty.

(It's the best kind)

“this is how it works:
    you’re young until you’re not
    you love until you don’t
    you try until you can’t
    you laugh until you cry
    you cry until you laugh
        and everyone must breathe until their dying breath”

from “On the Radio”
by Regina Spektor

When is young not young anymore?
And when is love not love anymore?
How many years will you wait until
You realize that unrequited means it’s over?

I am torn in two, as usual,
But I have ceased long ago
From crying out in complaint.
Tearing my flesh from my bones
Are her words and voice,
Talking to me,
Not the machine.
My intentions are derailed once more;
There is nothing I can do.

I have no explanations
Left to provide,
No lies left to leave my lips,
No hope remains for either of us.
The end is already past,
And it is no fault of mine
If you had your eyes closed.

This is how it works,
One heart is always holding on,
And this time, that heart is not mine.
This is how it works,
One heart is always colder,
And lightning never strikes twice.
This is how it works,
But this isn’t working.

Reviews

[Dane Osborne]

Fascinating s**t:) A very familar subject done in a fresh way. people don't want to let go in relationships because in their mind they have associated their whole idea of happiness with some person when in reality they should try to find that in their own individual growth instead and then they can find somebody. Thats just what I see when I look at most people in these situations and I think you conveyed that quite well. Kudos:)

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"This is how it works,
One heart is always holding on,
And this time, that heart is not mine.
This is how it works,
One heart is always colder,
And lightning never strikes twice.
This is how it works,
But this isn’t working."

{wow-i really love this poem--very introspective}

james:-)