Concrete.

I always learned that lines should rhyme
and just like life, hold a perfect time,
but nobody told me that all they really had to do...
was be real.

So I'm sorry I'm no poet.
I'm sorry I'm not some high strung chamber singer going to a "world class high school."
And I'm sorry that I ever let you think that because I'm quiet, I'm just some mindless robot
Look up. Breathe. Look down. Command not recognized. Smile. Breathe. Think.

Robots don't think.
So maybe you think that I don't think
because there isn't always a stink to think
unless you never thunk in the first place, then the stink is overwhelming, probably because you thought no one could smell it.
But robots don't think.

And I think I'm getting off topic, so I can't be a robot.
I'm just a human who can't write poetry.
A human who expresses herself differently than you do,
But a human who expresses herself nonetheless.

Maybe at the end of the day when I'm sitting in the studio
I'll think to myself,
"Rilee. . . lyrics and poetry are the same thing.
They just express themselves differently."

Yours, mine, theirs.

 I remember you. 

Do you remember me? 

Not the me I am now, but the me I used to be. Do you see how I've grown?

I'm the girl who loved all the shows you loved.

The one you used to have stopwatch wars with in chemistry class.

And you're the boy who never listened in school, but always listened when I needed it. 

Remember now?

I remember you.

And I know you remember me. 

I remember when you taught me how to speak pidgin. 

And when I missed your birthday party because I went to Lake Powell.

I'm sorry for that. 

I don't remember when we became best friends, but I know that we are. 

Please remember me. 

I remember you.

I hope you remember me.

And I hope you hold close the times that we shared. 

Because I'm your first love, though you aren't mine. 

And when you look in the mirror, I hope you miss my silhouette there next to you.

I hope I forget.

When you're halfway across the country will you remember me?

When you've moved on and found new friends, please remember me.

When you realize she wasn't the one, don't come to me.

I have others I need to remember.

Remember me.
Or don't.