strangers



there are words like water
 and i am drowning because i don't know how to swim.

because i had them all, 
and now i am struck mute.
nothing i say will breach the gap.
nothing i say will matter at all.
i don't speak that language.

we move forward,
and out of the noise comes something i know.
he is whistling.
it's a song.
i smile.
neither of us speak english. not really. i'm bad at talking. he is from somewhere else.
 he leaves, and i know that i'll never see him again.

because that's how this works.

the ride is over, and i pass into the other room.
and the noise comes back again.
sweet and high, over the heads of everyone else.
i look over.
he smiles.
we are not so different after all then.
because that is a language i know,
even if i don't speak it.

xx

it's hot here, babe.


Comments

  1. i love the tower of terror. i love it.

    i love the language of smiling and waving. xx

    it is hot their, isn't it?

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  2. Don't you fall in love with a foreigner at Disneworld, gurl.

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    1. i didn't and i haven't and i'll try not to.

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  3. These are my favorite interactions with strangers. It's like you've shared a secret, but only for a moment.

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  4. no no, fall in love with a foreigner at disneyworld ;) this is very pretty!!

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  5. oohhh my gooossshh <3 GIRL THIS GAVE ME CHILLS. like...this is so real. It's poetry. REAL AND POETRY.

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  6. DANGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
    THIS IS GOOD & THIS IS LIFE.
    also tower of terror is life &
    i love disney world with all my heart.

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  7. i literally do not even know what to say to yOU I CAN'T TALK TO YOU GOODBYE.

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  8. never did have enough words to explain. goodness I am slow
    sorry. :)

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  9. This is one of my new favorites of yours.

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  10. wAT
    this perfection is more than i can handle. i love him already.
    (who is he?? who cares he sounds perfect hAHA))

    chills chills chills chills
    kbai darlin' <3

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    1. HAHAHAA
      some handsome stranger that i'll never meet again. boohoo. <3
      love ya girl.

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