Thanks a bunch to Wicked! and dmitra1 for the reviews. SO sorry it took me FOREVER to get around to editing this; I literally couldn't find the willpower XD.
my skin tingles listening to acoustic guitar
playing through my half-broken earbuds.
i close my eyes and imagine i'm there;
standing in a crowd of music fans
singing along to songs of heartbreak and pickup trucks.
somewhere in nashville, tennessee
is a meat and three dish i'll try to finish.
i'll take the second half back home so i can relive it all.
i can almost hear the sound of country tunes;
almost sense the energy of "let's do this".
but mostly i am called to the smoky mountains.
my picture of what home should look like
is trees for miles with wandering rivers weaving through.
now i'm scrolling through photos with tears in my eyes.
my daydreams have always been just beyond distant borders.
can i make this far-fetched notion come true?
it's ridiculous that a girl from a fly-over town in northern california
who's scared of spiders and trying new things
would try to move across the country to a place she's never known...
but i still hold onto this foolish hope.
i can't release this wish i have started to crave.
i'll collect fantasies like petals until i can let them loose,
flying up to the skies of tennessee.
Footnotes
Yeah I'm daydreaming about Tennessee again. Sorry if this becomes a pattern.
Replying: What can I say? Maybe love is in the air. I'm not sure if it's avoidable through filter masks, but either way, I'm feeling sweet and sappy. There's a lot of bad stuff going around in this world- I am still so filled with love and if I can share that, I will.
Replying: I'm sorry! That sucks! I still crave healthy food too, but luckily I can still make healthy versions of it. There's a icecream called Pana, which I LOVE!
4 Comments
Emi
I could read this again and again and never get tired of it! Beautiful work, as usual. Makes me want to visit Tennessee.
A Certain Type of Decisive
Replying: What can I say? Maybe love is in the air. I'm not sure if it's avoidable through filter masks, but either way, I'm feeling sweet and sappy. There's a lot of bad stuff going around in this world- I am still so filled with love and if I can share that, I will.
Ibex
Replying: It's totally okay with me if you show that poem to your mom. Glad you liked it!
Writing4Life
Replying: I'm sorry! That sucks! I still crave healthy food too, but luckily I can still make healthy versions of it. There's a icecream called Pana, which I LOVE!