i watched
flowers bloom and wilt.
i watched
empires rise and fall.
i watched
people make mistakes
and learn from them.
i sat there watching, observing and taking careful notes.
but i forgot to live my life.
i never smelled the flowers.
i never traveled to different empires.
i never built relationships with people.
i sat there,
eager to learn,
scared of making mistakes,
building different theories,
but time passed by
and i didn't experience anything.
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New Voice
PoetryPoetry & very short stories. Some are real, some are fantasies. // #11 in Poetry (February 24th 2016) Cover by the amazing @sighstiles
