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The Unspoken Rule

False events appearing real.

By Franky Carter AppleseedPublished about 9 hours ago 3 min read

Is it no worries, or is it all good?

No worries is no longer applicable, with this new rule. All good is the new cool. No worries is forign. All good is local cool.

Bring it closer to home. Stand up for what is true. Don’t let anything misguide you from being true, to you. Don’t steal the script. Don’t break the chain. Stand in line and take the pain.

I can’t step out of line, and I can’t break loose. I have to predict what’s coming, and keep my cool. This is not a game you should play. This is not a game I wanted to join. This is not a game, and this is not cool. However, it’s just my luck that I’m here writing about this with you.

Will I wind down the coast and learn how to play real blues? Will I sit on a street corner and think about her? Will I play my guitar, and I’ll cry for you? fell in love with my own tale, even if it was for you, and you. Never the less, I’ll keep my guitars and I’ll keep crying blue.

Maybe I’ll break the rule, but then life will be forever cruel. But how will anyone know if I break an unspoken rule? The joke will be on me, as always, it will all spill over and I will mourn without you, or even you.

It’s the rule that can’t be broken, because failure is not an option. It’s not an option. I have to stay in tune. Which is difficult when I’m lost without you. I can’t break this unspoken rule.

I’d like to stay here awhile and finish my tune, but it’s getting harder as time goes on for a stomping foot hooligan to not break this one and only unspoken rule.

What’s easy for some is impossible for others. What’s impossible for some is easy for others.

I’m just doing my best to avoid breaking additional lines because my freedom has to ring anew.

I don’t want to go home, and I don’t want to stay here. All I want is to finish what I started all those years ago but now it’s late and I have to leave soon.

It’s so easy for some and so hard for others. But if I work hard I can grow and avoid breaking the unspoken rule.

it dosent take much to break me, it doesn’t take much to make me. But I’ll try my heart out to keep myself on time and not break this rule.

I’ve lived on the outside for so long, and tried to be cool. So now there is a rule that applies to everyone who didn’t realize this is the rule.

It’s sad to say this is true. Now that I lost you life seems so hard because there’s so much I never knew.

What we find out later, when we find what’s really true, is all is not lost if I can just keep myself cool. It’s not super easy to break the rules. It’s not super easy to stop and have a look. All I hoped for and all I dreamed really just depended on trusting what’s in a book.

Hold me to it, hold me against it. I’ll do my best to keep it 100, so I can stay close to you.

It amazes me how life can be so cruel, and I chose to be kind in a world that mocks me and you.

Does that mean I’m failing? Does that mean I’ve lost touch with what’s true?

Who knows, but

I must always be afraid otherwise I may break the mysterious unspoken rule. 🙏🏼

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About the Creator

Franky Carter Appleseed

Changes, loss, grief & sobriety.

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