unfinished thoughts.

by the time you've realized how deep the water is, you're already drowning. the sudden silence you hear as the world slows is deafening and there's nothing you can do but to cover your ears, close your eyes and pretend that everything is okay that the future is set and that life is fair but you know that it's not. the old man hobbling next to you can attest to that. how broken people become when they open their eyes to what the world really is. and you start to really miss the days when you had nothing to worry about besides, "mom, what's for dinner?" the days when you saw things as they should be, not how they really are. the days when the people you loved were heroes, not flawed humans. the days when everything seemed right. life can be such an amazing and terrible thing.