i. in a world that is upside down, you can walk on clouds and carry little parts of them in your pockets. they're just as you imagined them to be, cotton candy fluffy. and you give a handful of them to anyone who is having a bad day as a token of "hang in there".
ii. in a world that is upside down, rainbows sprout from your giggles and your fingertips leak just enough drizzle.
iii. in a world that is upside down, happiness is abundant and sadness comes in waves, once in every full moon, whenever you miss someone.
iv. in a world that is upside down, girls can walk backwards down an alley and they don't need to look back twice before taking a step because boys know how to keep their hands to themselves.
v. in a world that is upside down, home isn't just a metaphor anymore. it is the same four walls you grew up in, and the same garden where you chased the same butterfly and met the buck-toothed boy you're marrying tomorrow. in an upside down world, home feels like home.
vi. in a world that is upside down, boys leak moonlight when they cry and girls breathe in harmless flames whenever they're angry.
vii. in a world that is upside down, moonlight has replaced lamplight.
viii. in a world that is upside down, apologies have been replaced by flowers.
ix. in a world that is upside down, you are what you believe in. 'courage' isn't the tallest mountain in the town that's so difficult to climb, it blooms on your paper-thin palms.
x. in a world that is upside down, you never think you're not good enough. and the trees that you plant yourself bend down to hug you and flowers bloom only to kiss your nose every time you choose to be kind.
xi. in a world that is upside down, i love you and you love me more and poets don't have anything to write about other than our love.
xii. since this world is slowly and gently learning to hold the pain and loneliness that's brimming in the air around us, it has twisted itself inside out.
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