A Day At A Time - Tumblr Posts

you know, i wanted to be more than this.

maybe it was the books. the fairytales, the happy endings,

i thought i would swim my way to gold and write myself into a new age, but

reality doesn’t work like that for everyone.

i’ve been told to reach for the stars

only as long as it’s economically advantageous,

so my dreams falter long before i break the atmosphere.

he says there’s no point in striving for the audacity of happiness

until the rest of life fits perfectly into cookie-cutter molds.

but that’s no reality either.

i thought by now i would be more than this,

this inhaling through the night

only to be starved of breath by noon,

the taking life a day, an hour, at a time

and holding on ‘til sunrise.

but maybe this is just reality.

~ @a-universe-of-almosts