Sounds Like Love

by Ashley Poston

And I don’t care about making it big—I just want to make it. I’d rather be ten people’s favorite thing than a hundred people’s tenth-favorite thing.”

There were some songs you made special—songs for first dances, songs for funerals, songs for heartbreak and forgetting. And then there were the songs that made you.

If you spend your entire life comparing everything to the best thing you ever made, then you aren’t gonna find joy in any of it. You’ll just be unhappy that they aren’t like the original thing, you know?”

“Follow your joy,”

How the days just seemed to go by faster and faster and I couldn’t stop them. They slipped through my fingers like sand.

“Sometimes the dreams you come with aren’t the dreams you leave with, and sometimes you just don’t leave at all.

Good love songs made you want to fall in love. They held emotions, weight, memories.

We were all made of up memories, anyway. Of ourselves, of other people. We were built on the songs sung to us and the songs we sang to ourselves, the songs we listened to with broken hearts and the ones we danced to at weddings.

“You should cry as much as you want. It’s not a bad thing. It never is. Grief is just a love song in reverse.”