Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

by Lana Del Rey

it’s been a real fight just to keep my mind from committing treason.

My thoughts have changed my voice is higher now i’m over u

Make it real life, let me be a real wife to you. Girlfriend, lover, mother, friend.

May my eyes always stay level to the horizon may they never gaze as high as heaven to ask why The whys in this lifetime i’ve found are inconsequential compared to the magic of the nowness

i pray that i may always keep my eyes level to your eye line never downcast at the table cloth too nervous to share my innermost thoughts with you

there’s things you still don’t know about me like sometimes i’m afraid my sadness is too big and that one day you might have to help me handle it

May my eyes always stay level to the horizon may they never gaze as high as heaven to ask why

ask for answers in the sky

The whys in this lifetime i’ve found are inconsequential compared to the magic of the nowness-

looking for God in the clouds of the dawn or listening out for otherworldly contact 30 billion light years on

always keep my eyes level to your eyeline never downcast at the tablecloth

there are things you still don’t know about me like sometimes i’m afraid my sadness is too big and that one day you might have to help me handle it

i believe in the goodness in me

Singleness of focus is the key to transmission for an emphasis on developing inner intuition close your eyes and feel where you hold your attention if it’s in the back of your eyes walk it down to your heart center and make that the new place from which your thoughts enter clairvoyance comes mostly from this simple function

Be the art that life is breathing Be the soul the world is living.

you don’t want to be forgotten You just want to disappear

I was once in love with my life

it can’t always be about waiting for u

if i could become my own navigator- a captain of the sky that perhaps i could stop looking for direction- from you.

“you don’t trust yourself.” I was horrified. Feeling as though I had somehow been found out. Like he knew me- how weak i was

Never run the ship into irons. That’s nautical terms for not sailing the boat directly into the wind. In order to do that though you have to know where the wind is coming from. And you might not have time to look to the mast or up farther to the weather vane so you have to feel where the wind is coming from- on your cheeks, and by the tips of the white waves- from which direction they’re rolling.

6 trips to the moon for my poetry to arise I’m not a captain I’m not a pilot I write I write.

i became an angel and you put me to bed

do things that you think are sweet and a sweet man is sure to follow.

hearts on fleek

Don’t make me be resilient i so want to be soft if u let me be myself u will be the first one who ever did.

I don’t need you but I want you because you’re so cool and I’m not that damaged

I’m sorry I’m still broken but I could still make you happy.

I wanted more than that even though I’ve never had anything.

there’s always been just a little tiny piece of me inside the size of a small slice of angel cake that knew somewhere somehow That I deserved better than someone like you.

“The man that I love hates me. But it would be easier to stay.”

Sweet the way it tastes in my mouth to say your name sweet like when I was young, driving down those roads before we were done before any big battles were lost or won unbeknownst to everyone except for you and me.

wanting to be closer to something big and free.

my greatest battle will be this unchained melody In my heart

Our leader is a megalomaniac and we’ve seen that before but never because it was what the country deserved.

it’s either that or I 5150 myself.

That should they take too much there will be nothing left to give. Not everyone’s nature is good or golden

I’m tired of fighting you. Tired of you taking from me

my heart is very fragile and I have nothing left to give

I love u But you don’t understand me

You see I’m a real poet My life is my poetry

Every night I die when I give myself to you sad but beautiful

I stepped on a bird cried in my new boyfriend’s arms to live is to kill

For years I begged you to just take me in your arms you wouldn’t. Couldn’t.