From my hands

So much I thought I'd have to say
Though I try to speak, my meaning strays
We can't avoid the facts that brought us here
I have come to say goodbye
The lies I try to tell with my own eyes;
An act of pride, a willful compromise
Please understand how torn I am
When I walk away from here
I lament the moments we won't share
If I am far too sentimental, I apologize
Please understand this is who I am
And who I'll still be when I've walked away from here
You know I'm not unkind
When I say in the future
The past is just the past
No going back
No change of heart
But this is now
Time will not differ
My thoughts betray, so easily confess
How long I'll wait here after you have gone
Nothing ends but I don't believe that now
Please don't walk away from here
I went alone and I remember days
Nothing will change a single fact of who you were to me
Oh, come what may, forever to the end
I find it so hard to let you go
And hush now, let it go now
There's no need for sad goodbyes
Hush now, let it go now
I know it's time to go
Time to let this fall from my hands

The tourist

"He’s a tourist. He vacations in people’s lives, takes pictures, puts them in his scrapbook, and moves on. All he’s interested in are stories.

Basically, Leslie, he’s selfish.
And you’re not.
That’s why you don’t like him."

Ron ♥️

Not yet

University canteen.
Suddenly on the radio "Wonderwall".
Me: Cool, Oasis.
Student close to me: Oh, wow! My mom always plays this one.
-_-

When you do not know

I cannot stop laughing. Da Vinci, in VOY "Scorpion - Part I" actually says "CHE CAZZO!" when his arm machine does not work. Besides some Picardian "merde", swearing in ST is unprecedented.

Berlin

When the child was a child,
It was the time for these questions:
Why am I me, and why not you?
Why am I here, and why not there?
When did time begin, and where does space end?
Is life under the sun not just a dream?
Is what I see and hear and smell
not just an illusion of a world before the world?
Given the facts of evil and people.
does evil really exist?
How can it be that I, who I am,
didn’t exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?

Misread

Something gets lost when you translate
It's hard to keep straight
Perspective is everything
And I know now which is which and what angle I oughta look at it from
I suppose I should be happy to be misread
Better be that than some of the other things I have become.

And aside from that, this chain of reaction
Baby, is losing a link
Though I'd hope you'd know what I tried to tell you
And if you don't I could draw you a picture in invisible ink

Anyway

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.