love-luna-good

"Round and Round, red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, round and round it went. I never thought a little piece of string with multiple beads could mean so much. It kept spinning, and spinning, around my wrist. And it did that for an hour. He came and greeted me and we talked, I kept spinning the bracelet. He kept talking. I didn't feel any guilt when he stopped talking, when he didn't look at me, when he walked away. I didn't talk to him for the next 2 weeks, he came back to my house and asked me to come to a supermarket with him. I agreed, since I had nothing better to do that to spin that bracelet again. His car was full of silence, and I t

Goldenrod and the 4H stone The things I brought you when I found out You had cancer of the bone Your father cried on the telephone And he drove his car into the Navy yard Just to prove that he was sorry In the morning, through the window shade When the light pressed up against your shoulderblade I could see what you were reading All the glory that the Lord has made And the complications you could do without When I kissed you on the mouth Tuesday night at the Bible study We lift our hands and pray over your body But nothing ever happens I remember at Michael's house In the living room when you kissed my neck And I almost touc

And it made me wonder what a small world we have. Once a song is on the charts millions of people are online listening to it right now. And the guy sitting next to you on the bus has heard it. And the woman behind the counter of a store has heard it. And your friend from when you were 6 years old has heard it. And then I started to think. If all these people, no matter how close or far you are from them, they have a piece of your life. And if it was all put together then you could see a life of yourself that you never thought could be seen. And I didn't sleep that night.