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“The past is a curious thing. It’s with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it’s got no reality, it’s just a set of facts that you’ve learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn’t merely come back to you, you’re actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.”
― Coming up for Air
― Coming up for Air
“Tears
I struggle with myself to keep them inside
The feelings that I have tried to deny.
I tell everyone that I am okay
When I battle to make it through each day.
In my world of illusions where everything was right
I cried myself to sleep each night.
You notice the tears filling my eyes
As I begin to shed my shallow disguise.
My pain, confusion and a few of my fears
Drop to the ground in the form of my tears.
It feels so good to release the emotions built up
To say what I feel instead of bottling them up.
As I cry a weight seems to lift from me
I feel so much better now that you can see.
And now that you know what it is that I feel
Will you fight the battle with me and
help my wounds heal?”
―
I struggle with myself to keep them inside
The feelings that I have tried to deny.
I tell everyone that I am okay
When I battle to make it through each day.
In my world of illusions where everything was right
I cried myself to sleep each night.
You notice the tears filling my eyes
As I begin to shed my shallow disguise.
My pain, confusion and a few of my fears
Drop to the ground in the form of my tears.
It feels so good to release the emotions built up
To say what I feel instead of bottling them up.
As I cry a weight seems to lift from me
I feel so much better now that you can see.
And now that you know what it is that I feel
Will you fight the battle with me and
help my wounds heal?”
―
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