"fall semester"

"if i tried would you still call me son? if i tried, would you call me at all? if i say that i'll go regardless of what you want me to do i'm better off without. i'm better off without you. if i change my mind it won't be soon enough for you, but i'm not you. i'll try to compromise for you to see that there's so many other things for me to find out. run myself to the ground. would you please forgive me if i found my way back home? everything i see, everything i do, everywhere i've been, these mean nothing to you?" -- getupkids

right now it really hurts me to think that there's nothing i can do to rescue you. you, my love, things are so hard for you. i want to take you away from here. so far away, make things better, nothing could ever harm you again.

someday, my love. someday. i'm not giving up. i'm not letting go.

(we'll be old enough to know better. young enough to pretend.)

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