Butterfly Lie

Butterfly lie

Ride on paper wings

Gold chasing the morning

Lips tainted sweet with 

The echo of your name

Ringing in desolate streets. 

~

The most beautiful moments in life

Shattered as our future rides on the

Fragile wings of a butterfly. 

~

Mine to hold

My hands grow cold

Watch as paper flutters

A note not mine

Sweet words of pride

In the catch they found 

In a man who was not theirs to own. 

~

Butterfly lie

Ride on paper wings

Gold chasing the morning

I’ll stand with tears in my eyes

And pray hope comes in the glory

A new day, a fresh start, it’s high time

That I depart from a story in which I do not play a part. 

One breath...

                      Tears fall...

                                       Faded memories

Stain the wall…

                         Goodbye…

                                          My butterfly lie.

You are my playlist

The song forever on my lips

You taste of salty tears and sweet macchiato

With a hint of blues and calming jazz.

~

Your laugh divine

Bubbling up like

Water from a fresh stream

Soothing away the frown lines

Between my eyes 

Colours vivid and bright.~

You are my playlist

I could listen to you forever

Gentle hums, rumbling chuckles,

The beat of your heart against my cheek.

~

No music will compare

To the song you create

Simple but magic

You are the drug thick in my veins.

~

You are my playlist

One I listen on repeat

You touch my heart

In the way no music can

Listen...do you hear forever?

I hate the silence

The silence in my mind

The echo of thoughts

Speaking everything my lips won’t. 

~ 

I hate the empty

I hate the cold

I hate the numbness

Spreading throughout

My bones. 

~ 

Silence

It scares me...

[Tips for Korean learners] Lazy is not always '게으르다 / 게을러요. ' Here are some tips.

Hello! TTTempting everyone! This is the Korean Grammar Doctor!

안녕하세요! 여러분! 한국어 문법 의사입니다! . . . 오늘은 ‘lazy'에 대해서 이야기를 해보려고 해요. . When texting with one of my friends, she said that 오늘 한국어 공부하기 너무 게을러요(I am too lazy to study Korean today). It seemed fine, but I found it awkward and decided to write this post in order to let Korean learners know how to use 'lazy’ in a proper sense. . . According to Webster’s learner’s dictionary, lazy has three meanings.

1) disapproving : not liking to work hard or to be active a lazy child who avoided household chores - I should have done more work this weekend, but I was feeling lazy. -> In this context, the word 'lazy’ is equivalent to 'indolence, sloth.’ 게으르다 is fine, but there is another Korean equivalent word here: 귀찮다. . 게으르다 is commonly used to describe someone’s personality like 게으른 사람 / 게으른 성격 / 게으른 인간 / 성격이 게으르다. In addition, if it doesn’t include 'regularity of laziness / consistency of laziness’, then it is hard to use 게으르다 for the temporal action or behavior. As an exception, you can say '오늘 너 왜 이렇게 게을러?’ . To describe 'you don’t want to do anything because you have a day off OR today is Sunday,’ then I suggest the word '귀찮다. / 하기 싫다.’ . - 오늘 공부하기 귀찮다. / 공부하기 싫다. - 오늘 일하기 귀찮다. / 일하기 싫다. - 침대에서 일어나기 싫다 / 일어나기 귀찮다. - 몸이 아프니까 모든 것이 다 귀찮다. - 일요일이라서 아무 것도 하기 싫다. 다 귀찮다. . . 2) always used before a noun : not having much activity : causing people to feel that they do not want to be active - a lazy summer day . . As I mentioned above, 게으르다 is commonly used to describe someone’s personality. If you are about to translate the example 'a lazy summer day’ as '게으른 여름 날’, It will be incorrect. . In this case, you can say '나른한 여름날’. There are similiar words : 느긋하다 / 여유롭다. . 나른하다: 기운이 빠지거나 긴장이 풀려 힘이 없다. Tired and lacking energy or strength. - 나른한 봄날 lazy spring day - 나른한 상태 - 나른한 오후 lazy afternoon - 뜨거운 물에 목욕을 하니 몸이 나른해졌다. I feel lazy when I take a bath in hot water - 봄이라서 그런지 온몸이 나른하다. - 점심을 먹으니 나른해진다 / 몸이 나른해진다(feel drowsy after eating) . . 느긋한: 서두르지 않고 마음의 여유가 있다. Keeping one’s composure and not hurrying. - 느긋한 하루 - 느긋한 일요일 - 느긋한 생활 - 느긋한 성격 - 느긋한 태도 - 우리는 해변에서 느긋한 하루를 보냈다. (We spent a lazy day on the beach) - 오늘 일요일이니까 느긋하게 하루를 보내요 / 휴일을 보내요. . . 여유롭다: 시간이나 공간, 돈 등이 넉넉하여 남음이 있다. Being a state in which there is abundant time, space, money, etc., enough to spare. . - 여유로운 모습. - 여유로운 삶. - 여유로운 시간. - 여유로움을 느끼다. - 여유로운 하루 - 오늘 시간이 여유롭게 있으니까 나들이나 갈까요? . . 3) always used before a noun : moving slowly . It is same with 천천히 / 유유히

유유히: 움직임이 한가하고 여유가 있게. With a leisurely and relaxed movement. - 유유히 걷다 - 유유히 날다 - 유유히 움직이다. - 유유히 돌아다니다. - 일요일에 유유히 책을 읽으며 커피를 마셨다. - 원을 그리며 천천히/유유히 나는 매 (a hawk flying in lazy circles) - 천천히 / 유유히 흐르는 강 (a lazy river)

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For the unfortunate wisdom develops between the glance at the cookbook and the exploding abomination in the oven

I think it’s kinda funny that you like me

‘Cause I don’t really like myself.

Yeah, I think it’s kinda crazy that you want me

‘Cause I don’t really want myself. 

~

I’m just a girl

Not pearl

Not too shiny

Or a beauty

But you say that 

I am anyway. 

~ 

I think you're kinda crazy 

But maybe that’s me

‘Cause I don’t really 

See what you see….

~ 

Not sure if I like this

Or it’s just low-self esteem

Tripping me up when it sees that I’m weak. 

~ 

Yeah, I wanna believe

Just wanna believe what you say is true….

But there’s a part of me

That you don’t even see

And it’s the part of me that I hate

Clouding my mind with its daze

How can you love this mess in the mirror?

~

I think it’s kinda funny that you like me

‘Cause I don’t really like myself

Yeah, I think it’s kinda crazy that you want me

‘Cause I don’t really want myself. 

~ 

I’m just a girl

In a material world

Trying to find where

I fit in the mold. 

~ 

Is there even a mold

That could hold me?

Or is there nowhere that I can go? 

~ 

I don’t really know

I don’t really know

Why you think that I’m gold

When I’m a rock and don’t let you close.

~ 

I think it’s kinda funny…

Yeah, I think it’s kinda crazy

That you love me even when I don’t. 

~ 

What do you see?

Oh, tell me what you see….

Faded tear tracks on cheeks

Or the blood on my teeth from... 

Oh, wait, that’s lipstick you see

Trying to hide the real me

Beneath the paint of the world

And I’m like, “Oh my gosh, is that me?”

Yeah, it’s funny what you see when you hide. 

~ 

What do you see?

Do you really see me? 

Or a puppet on a string

Suspended from the sky. 

~ 

I don’t really know

Yeah, I don’t really know

How to feel but I know one thing is true.

~ 

I think it’s kinda funny…

Yeah, I think it’s kinda crazy

That you love me even when I don’t.