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Long Live
Saturday in your bedroom
your headphones are on
showtunes play softly in the background
The world turns
The people move
The children play
Dragging feet on cracked sidewalks
A breath escapes you
as the laughter and lights from the street filter into your ears
You think about the ones sitting cross-legged on their beds like you
Listening to music like yours
Noticing the things you have noticed
The ones who play it safe
The ones who can feel their broken hearts shattering against the pavement
The ones who have followed the instruction manual and not daring to stray from it
They are the ones that you can understand without ever having to speak outloud
Then you think of the ones laughing as they dart beneath the neon lights
They are the ones your heart reaches for
The ones that make you speak outloud
The ones you have to listen to to understand
Your voice speaks outloud to them:
Long live the people who sing with the windows rolled down
Long live the people whose broken hearts litter their pavements
Long live the midnight to sunrise dancers
Long live the pranksters
the poets
the daredevils
Long live the sweating athletes
Long live the passion of their fans
Long live the concert screamers
Long live the ten year frienships
Long live the people that dance in the rain
Long live the dreamers
the romantics
the risktakers
Long live the people that were scarred in storms because they chose to go out and meet them
You breath in
are startled when you realize you've gone through five songs during your pondering
Saturday in your bedroom
Your headphones are off
you lean your head out of the open window
laughter is playing in the background.
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