7-20-16 Pages

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We all lack some common sense 

We stare into the sun

We eat an entire pack of jelly beans 

We go to sleep as the sun rises and wake up when the wolves get restless 

We fall in love with songs that sting our chests

Get drunk with strangers

Don't look both ways before crossing, even when no cars pass us by

Never wear shoes in the summer 

We walk around as open books

Filled with pages that we've scribbled, circled and starred

Ready for others to write in them

But the ink bleeds through ruining the perfect pages we've decorated

We've read through these a million times 

Soon enough the ink looks like art work

We hang it up in our gallery

We keep these pages open 

Never moving onto the next chapter 

We thought the rain would wipe away the ink stained on our eyes and under our finger nails

They write with the same pens but have different hand writing 

We're tearing open the spine to find everything we are

We see splattered ink and dried pages

Soon words mean nothing 

Walking through the same gallery 

We could call all the works by name

Our eyes droopy from waiting and scanning for a new piece of work

The walls are blank 

We all lack a little common sense 

Mine was letting you destroy my pages with beautiful spots

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