Us Deadly Few (Us Dark Few, #2)

by Alexis Patton

“Even those who feel the most can feel empty. Do you want to know what it means to be alive? It’s not perfection. It’s not being okay all the time. It’s having fears. Feeling like you aren’t good enough. Trying every day to be better. Your tears reflect how beautifully imperfect you are. What could be more human than that?”

The quiet yearns to be heard Those tendrils of loss whispering in the air Your story screaming out to be heard Especially when there’s nobody there The dark demands to be seen Blank spaces that were once taken Lives on pedestals for us to judge Filling dreams that will no longer awaken The mind needs to be spoken A cacophony of words slipping off your tongue Steady is the path for those who listen Turmoil waits for those who retreat The heart aches to be chosen Forgotten feelings daring to peek through But when your hand extends to break me I’ll cut mine off to be free of you.

That’s why you should be careful about who you love. When you loved someone, you gifted them a part of you. And if they left, you could never get those pieces back.

No person is more deserving than another. You can’t control where or who you’re born to. You can’t control your luck. All you can do is recognize your privileges and strive to be better than those who came before you.”

Do you see me? The real me? The me no one knows? The me hiding behind scars? The me with a heart too big for my chest? I think I hid for so long Because I didn’t even want to see myself Wearing skin that wasn’t my own Smiling through the invisible tears Moving when I didn’t know where to go There was a brief moment When you looked into me and not at me And you poked the walls I carefully crafted Like tiny dots in the night sky for you to explore Because you saw the light that created me When I only saw the darkness that forged me I forgive who I was And accept the person I am But in the silence of a fading night A truth whispers for no one but me to hear My darkest parts miss being held By the deadliness of you.

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If you are to step, make it deliberate Feel the memories beneath your feet Let your legs forge a path One comprised of dreams and grit Others may follow But your road is your own Even if you may turn Your destination remains the same When you step, don’t look back. If you are to live, make it meaningful A million stories spiral within you Let those dreams escape the heart Be practical Be crazy Leave a mark Do not worry where other paths lead For your story won’t be the same You don’t have to be greater But when you live, be the difference.

“That’s why it’s important for everyone to remember our history. To memorize our twisted scars and mistakes so that we may become better versions of humanity.”

“They can’t stop staring at us. But my eyes were made to look at you.”

“They never believed in us, baby. But you can make a believer of me too.”

No matter how hard you try, you can’t change anyone but yourself.

It felt like the world was stacked against them. And no matter how bad they fought. No matter how much they fit together in all the best and worst ways, it seemed like they were destined to crumble and fall apart.

It’s not about being perfect. It’s about letting your failures go.

If you stay silent for what is wrong, you won’t be able to stand for what is right.

If I forget you, I forget the world.

If my heart could speak The beats would lament and roar I think it would terrorize my flesh Refashion me from the inside out Take all the power from me And not let my doubts do the talking. I thought time was on my side That the end was some mystical line One I would face when my knees grew weak And you were as ancient as I But time possesses no allies Tomorrow comes, with or without you Try to stop the pendulum from swinging And you’ll miss the world passing you by. If my heart could speak It would present its scars as a warning sign To not let your words go unheard To not rely on time to fix relationships Because if my heart could have spoken It would’ve said everything you meant to me So I wouldn’t have to find closure apart from you.

“It’s okay to feel everything. Or nothing at all. Sometimes, emptiness takes up the most space.”

“Some scars aren’t meant to be covered up. Our imperfections and wounds are what make us beautiful, not this perfect façade we try to show the world. We overcome obstacles by accepting the frailty of life and how precious it is. And for those we have lost, we carry on their memory and live the life they would’ve wanted for us.”