I met a girl in a U-Haul.
A beautiful girl
And I fell for her.
I fell hard.
Unfortunately, sometimes life gets in the way.
Life definitely got in my way.
It got all up in my damn way.
Life blocked the door with a stack of wooden 2x4's nailed together and attached to a fifteen inch concrete wall behind a row of solid steel bars, bolted to a titanium frame that no matter how hard I shoved against it-
It wouldn't budge.
Sometimes life doesn't budge.
It just gets all up in your damn way.
It blocked my plans, my dreams, my desires, my wishes, my wants, my needs.
It blocked out that beautiful girl
that I fell so hard for.
Life tries to tell you what's best for you.
What should be most important to you.
What should come in first
or second
or third.
I tried so hard to keep it all organized, alphabetized, stacked in chronological order, everything in its perfect space, its perfect place.
I thought that's what life wanted me to do.
This is what life needed me to do.
Right?
Keep it all in sequence?
Sometimes, life gets in your way.
It gets all up in your damn way.
But it doesn't get all up in your damn way because it wants you to just give up and let it take control. Life doesn't get all up in your damn way because it just wants you to hand it all over and be carried along.
Life wants you to fight it.
Learn how to make it your own.
It wants you to grab an axe and hack through the wood.
It wants you to get a sledgehammer and break through the concrete.
It wants you to grab a torch and burn through the metal and steel until you can reach through and grab it.
Life wants you to grab all the organized, the alphabetized, the chronological, the sequenced. It wants you to mix it all together,
stir it up,
blend it.
Life doesn't want you to let it tell you that your little brother should be the only thing that comes first.
Life doesn't want you to let it tell you that your career and your education should be the only thing that comes in second.
And life definitely doesn't want me
To just let it tell me
that the girl I met,
the beautiful, strong, amazing, resilient girl
that I fell so hard for
should only come in third.
Life knows.
Life is trying to tell me
that the girl I love,
the girl I fell
so hard for?
There's room for her in first.
I'm putting her first.
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A/N
This one isn't mine. It's taken from Slammed (Book One of the Slammed Series) by AuthorColleenHoover. I decided to post this because I have so many task from my lecturers so I haven't had time to write a new piece, sorry tho.
If you haven't read the series, I suggest you to read it. It's really good. I'm sooo in love with the poems (and the characters too!)
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