JokerofDarklight

Maybe just maybe if she had just listened if her words could be concrete and yet essence then her lies would find a place for themselves if she'd put on more make up applied with care-it wouldn't cake and crack around the edges and we could play this game of denial endlessly- listlessly She could have known Maybe just maybe if you would just stand awhile if you would just stop turning your head in the devil may care affair of careless reassurances-one after another. If your truths were not so dry we'd have stay awhile and sipped at the bitterness and slipped away forever-together Maybe just maybe if we spoke a little louder

First Quarter A.P Literature & Composition Extended Definition Maturity “Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away…” -Lois McMaster Bujold `            How is maturity weighted and measured, by age or some other divine reasoning? Is maturity a concept so abstract that that it blurs the lines between existin