Shopping is Too Cruel

Joshua Radin's Today

Shoelaces untied
You can dry your eyes
Perfect shadows alive
Behind us
This is the day I make you mine

The way your hair lies
sometimes unrecognized
All the way from these today
on a train
Nothing to say but there's still time

But you are the one
I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun
It's been baiting on today

Lately I've lost my tongue
Today you found the sun
I know not long has grown
Well I thank god you came along

But you are the one
I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun
That's been baiting on today

You looked right through me
When there was no one else
I sat beside you and became myself
Today... today

You are the one
I've been waiting for today
And here comes the sun
That's been baiting on today

I am in complete awe of Sherman Alexie and his writing. I finished his novel yesterday night; he has such simple writing but it's so touching and thoughtful that you would have no idea that he hadn't used any difficult words at all. My goal is to be able to craft such beautiful stories with simple words but not with such simple meanings.

Fluff passes through dreams,
white and free and ever,
though no one deems
it to be quite clever.

My sentiments from this poem is that people don't believe in ideals and dreams because they're fantasy and not "quite clever", but they are always there within.