Sunday, September 16, 2012

of rattlesnakes and love

"rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth"

-Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes I'd rather wake up and go to heaven than go to school.

I'll never know what love is. I'll never understand. Every time I think I'm starting to figure it out, right when I'm about to wrap my fingers around it, it sends me in a whole another direction. And when I say it, I have no idea what I mean.
It might be love.
Do you have to understand something to need it?
I've watched someone I love take their dying breath. I've been hurt and I've hurt others but still, I have no idea what love is. We're all baby rattlesnakes, we are the most dangerous. We have no control over our venom. Our venom is love. We are the most dangerous. We call them lips but they are really just fangs. We paralyze our prey and then we digest them. We are the most dangerous. How are we so ignorant to the warning rattling?
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15 comments:

  1. NelsonSeptember 16, 2012 at 8:47 PM

    Too much is right with this post. The title, the epigraph (is that something?), the picture, and that opening line. That opening line floored me. And I'm sitting on my couch.

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  2. Sariah MaySeptember 17, 2012 at 6:58 AM

    I love the baby snakes metaphor. So true. I like your blog:)

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  3. UnknownSeptember 17, 2012 at 7:01 AM

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  4. UnknownSeptember 17, 2012 at 7:01 AM

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  5. UnknownSeptember 17, 2012 at 7:02 AM

    Well done

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  6. Thyne SarcasmSeptember 17, 2012 at 7:22 AM

    Man, this is so freaking true.
    Stealing "
    Sometimes I'd rather wake up and go to heaven than go to school."

    Sometimes waking up and going to the real world is harder than anything else.

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  7. Evelyn Asher PuririSeptember 17, 2012 at 8:18 AM

    Sometimes i'd rather go to hell, than go to sleep.

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  8. UnknownSeptember 17, 2012 at 8:19 AM

    flockaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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  9. EleanorSeptember 17, 2012 at 8:34 AM

    "Every time I think I'm starting to figure it out, right when I'm about to wrap my fingers around it, it sends me in a whole another direction." I love this part. & I love your background.

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  10. ember lillySeptember 17, 2012 at 12:41 PM

    "And when I say it, I have no idea what I mean." using this in journal

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  11. UnknownSeptember 21, 2012 at 12:50 PM

    you're incredible, i think.
    love.

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  12. Lucy*hughesFebruary 12, 2013 at 3:42 PM

    hello irrelevant. i would like to agree that baby rattlesnakes are,indeed, the most dangerous.

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  13. Priscilla BelleJanuary 26, 2014 at 5:08 PM

    "We have no control over our venom." Seriously Amazing. I could live in this post.

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  14. UnknownFebruary 11, 2014 at 4:39 PM

    You're amazing.

    The last sentence of Nelson's comment was amazing.

    You're still amazing.

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  15. NelsonNovember 4, 2016 at 6:53 AM

    Still good.

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