1 First you fall, and then you fly, and you believe that you belong up in the sky.2 Flap your arms as you run. Every revolution brings you closer to the sun.3 You fall asleep in motion in uncharted hemispheres, and you wake up with the stars falling down around your ears.4 When they hit the ground, they're nothing but stones, and that's how you learn to live alone.5 Bit by bit, you slip away. You lose yourself in pieces, in the things that you don't say.6 You're not here, but you're still there. The sun goes up, the sun goes down, but you're not sure you care.7 You live inside the false until you don't recognize the truth. People send you pictures, and you can't believe it's you.8 It's been years since your house has felt like home, and that's how you learn to live alone.9 You don't feel right, but it's not wrong.10 It's just hard to start again this far along, and brick by brick they're letting go as you walk away from everything you know.11 You release resistance, and you lean into the wind until the roof begins to crumble and the rain comes pouring in.12 You sit there in the rubble until the rubble feels like home, and that's how you learn to live alone.*