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| Over the Cracks
(I Don’t Need You) Janet Kuypers 7/22/16 (based on the poem “no there isn’t”, written 10/11/98) I can stand alone I don’t need you and you think there’s more to it than that, but no, there isn’t well, sometimes you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do, and you just get it done. when it’s got to get dome, you have to remember that people, when actors and actresses, who do it on television, well, they and the directors have no idea how to get it done. Well, sometimes the world and everything kind of shows what it’s made of and sometimes you have to survive all the crap that’s thrown in your direction. So sometimes it’s important to understand that I don’t need all the crutches that people usually give themselves, but it’s true, I don’t need you, and I can get along fine without you. Sometimes you can avoid the cracks, but sometimes the crack open up to a gorge and sucks you down and swallows you whole. Learn to avoid the cracks, or learn to crawl your way out of the chasm... And shake off the demons from the abyss after you managed to break free. After I live through something like that, do I feel any different? Should the world be now revolving at a different pace? Or was everyone just used to the change of the earth’s speed when it changed, as it something whey just never chose to think about? Was everyone just used to the world when it started to feel this way? So many people go through life with a lack of emotion, or a lack of feeling, or a lack of thought. And I’ve never been asked to find out information like that, I’ve never been asked to function that way,. I’ve never been able to just let life go by. Maybe life stepped on me a few times. Maybe life opened up it’s cracks and it made me battle against humanity. Maybe those cracks opened up so I’d lose the ground underneath my feet. Gravity, like death, pulled me into the abyss, and I had to claw my way until my fingers were bloody from scraping, and I bled rivers, the oceans filled with my sweat until I was able to break free from earth’s gravitational well. Well, you know what I’m getting at with these metaphors... Maybe if life is just cruel that way maybe life is storming away and if you happen to be in the way, well maybe life will just accidentally step on you, or leave cracks in your world so that you will slip and fail. Well, at times like that you just have to be ready for a battle, maybe it’s a battle you weren’t expecting to run into in the first place, but sometimes you just have to be ready for a conflict like that. Even if it never comes to get you, you have to be ready for that potential problem, just in case. Just in case it happens. And I tell you, I’ve made myself ready. I’ve had to. And this is why I want you to understand. You think there’s more to it, but I just don’t need to anymore. |
