a thousand memories of smiles,

laughs and kids

just being stupid and reckless

like kids are

and hands held under a watercoloured

sky with cotton candy clouds

and paper birds.

and as the rain falls

it shatters against the windowpane

i curled my hands around yours

even though it was all

crashing down,

i promised you

It was all going to be alright.

We are going to make it through

With scars the markers of our path

It's all we knew.

charging through the parking lot with

music playing so loud

that it hurt our ears

and made the lady swear at us

from inside the protection of her car

she'd never leave because she was

Scared

Of us.

who'd be scared of us?

We're just stupid teenagers.

and the pain of our matching tattoos

COLLAPSE; straight across our knuckles.

the blood as it bubbled to the skin

and mixed with the

ink and became a permanent resident

inside our cracked and weathered skin.

all those memories we were supposed to have made.

don't forget about us, okay?

we're still here for you, after you fall.

and even though you swear

you won't ever

forget

we all know the truth

about us.

about everything.