"Two months in and all you knowis your new medicationmakes your hands shake.Twenty-four years..."

“Two months in and all you know

is your new medication

makes your hands shake.

Twenty-four years old,

and you’re finally starting to understand

that calling a place home

doesn’t make it feel like one.

Yesterday, you learned how to change a tire, but

you still don’t know

how to love someone without

cracking your ribs open

and spilling through the fault lines,

like some kind of natural disaster.

You’re pretending if you keep laughing

you won’t have to admit

you’re afraid;

pretending like love’s gonna

solve all your problems;

pretending you’ve got it all together

when you don’t have it at all.

You have made so much

out of so little–

you built yourself tall

on the backs of every person

who told you you couldn’t.

You flew your colors in a war zone–

made it back wounded and alive.

You have done everything you know how,

and it means something

to have tried.”

- Twenty-Four by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)