you can't fit a big dream into a small life

by Rachel Lynch


It's between you and you, nobody else is going to live your dream for you. To wake up each morning with purpose, to know the direction in which you're going. 

But sometimes, I slip. I fall in love, I wait around. It's a temporary seduction, hoping now I've finally met someone strong enough to pull me out of my own dreams and into theirs. 

But no, it's all an illusion. I've never met a man stronger than the will I have to live my dreams. I've searched so hard - in musicians, painters, photographers and businessmen. Any excuse to fall into love and out of my wild pursuit. There's an art to life's distractions. But at best, its inspiration for more art, a temporary distraction from my work. At worst, it's heartache and emotional growth. I can give love, but I always come back to myself. My self tells me I'm not finished, not yet. Nothing is settled and there's so much to do. When your passion for your purpose is so big, it's hard to balance it alongside another big love. 

You see, my art is my first love, and when I look out the window, I dream of her. 

xx 

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when i'm with you

by Rachel Lynch


I waited for you. I waited for you to bring me up, take me around, and motivate my heart. 

But I think I was waiting for me. Trying to find all the love in you that I didn't have for myself. 

You left me high and dry, and I've longed for the day that I could look you in your face and say, "you did this to me." 

But maybe that's why my success was stagnant for so long, not in a place where I was ready to admit my mistakes and let go. Depression grips you like a current, dead in your own skin, and no matter how spiritual and powerful you think you are, it will always strip you down. The demons you create yourself are always more dangerous. 

You can no longer put your limitations on me, your limitations are dead to me. The diseased thinking that spreads across our shared bed. 

Holding on to things I don't need to, so I threw a funeral for them. I forget those things which are behind, and I press. I don't have nothing against you, I don't hate you. 

But I love me. 

 

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one true love

by Rachel Lynch


I know you're eager to make things perfect, but don't you know that good things take time, and love is no different. 

Lovers are patient, they know the moon needs time to become full. I am with you, even when we are apart. 

Do not beg for what does not want to stay. If she's wild let her go. You have complete freedom to not be in my presence, will pave the way for you to want to be. The ego seeks intimacy through control. 

I wish for my lover to be my passport, to travel as far as I wish without leaving our shared bed. 

xx

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la vie en arts

by Rachel Lynch


She broke her heart one too many times, endless boys and games. But she always put it back together with art. Creation - the mending glue that made everything make sense. 

She began expanding beyond photographs and words. She started writing songs and mixing paints. She didn't want to be the greatest at any of these, nevertheless, they gave her life meaning. 

Suspending her sorrows, so distant from the words she wants to write. It's easy to create a new life, one in which we don't have to feel. Even the vinyasa class moved too fast, she could never grasp the constant motion of it all. 

She stayed up all night, writing songs that the next day would be promptly ripped out of her notebook. She would take them back, but the feeling's dead. And the world rolls on, another day - space, distance and time. She prepares herself for Paris. 

xx 

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