hold on
When your self esteem is in hiding, when you are looking for a way out, remember that maybe you’ve been brainwashed too…
the new radicals sang ‘you only get what you give’
Several years later, in America, far away, I had found my self esteem, I found a way out. Lost on the roads of a driving culture.
From your home that I shared you send me CD’s with lyrics about moving to America, lyrics about flying away, lyrics that echo my words to you. Before I left. You haunt me through songs and the mailbox. Distance in time and place are no distance at all.
For a while I tried to reconjur why I left, then found peace in just forgetting
the new radicals sang ‘someday we’ll know’.
July 27th, 2009
Beautifully put – I love your posts when they’re like this.
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July 27th, 2009
I’d love to find peace in forgetting, but remember some things all too well. Love the New Radicals song – always cheers me up.
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