Volunteering - Good for the Soul

Today you pulled me close and whispered that you had a present for me if I could promise to continue restoring the faith in my generation for yours.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
You're so very welcome. 

Birth of a Silver Angel

You've always been so beautiful in the ways you make yourself so completely different from everyone else, but this is not the same kind of beauty. It's a flower blooming, ready to offer itself to the sun. It's a drop of rain after a dry spell. It's the sweetest sugar ever tasted and it's all for love. Your love. You've always been so beautiful in the way you make yourself so completely different from everyone else, but this, this is even more beautiful than that could ever be. 

Just the Cherry on Top

You wanted something cute and cheesy
and I wondered why you got that
when no one ever cared enough for me.

But you're the music begging my bones

to dance on your count and 

I want to dance with you - truly.

More than a waltz through the kitchen,

dressed up, made up, the whole nine yards -

I want it to be corny and sweet

So will you please

jive to prom

with me?

Looking Back

Do things. Make memories. Discover happiness.

Everyone knows it's the only way.

Passport Romance

And now little bits of each language remind you of people you knew all too well and not long enough.

Go. Travel. Now. 

The First Forest Walk

How was I supposed to know better when you were the first monster I've ever encountered?

If You're the Devil

These pages go so quickly
and our story takes so long to tell,

but I have never known a more
worthy cause than serenading Hell. 

Living Just a Bit More

I have painted caked under my fingernails
and your song is stuck in my head again.

This is something I have come to terms with
like cold coffee at midnight or luke-warm water.

Believe me I am standing alone
with a strength you've never seen

within me, before. 

Amanda

There's just something about little miracles
that pulls me from the midnight waves every time.
Something about the kindness of strangers
and the look of a shining smile upon an unnecessarily
burdened face - usually still so young, too.

No matter how far down the rabbit hole I fall
or what type of sorrow I'm infatuated with
there's just something about little miracles
that calls me back home with a haunted grace
whispering "tomorrow's a new day, Sunshine."

It's not that I need Sunlight to be free and
there's more to me than the void of ebony,
but today you were an angel in disguise.
You and all your new friends stopping for
photographs and hugs, Amanda, you are my hero.

My little miracle long overdue.
A smile for the burdened soul.
A breath of fresh air under cloudy skies.
A force to be reckoned with.

Mardi Gras Ball Masks

Pages so full of life disguise the painful nature of  my story, That way you're less worried.

P.s. I love that smile you have when I tell you I'm okay.