Contagious Insanity

I will continue asking you to listen, but never to understand.

Good News On the Way

My love, oh my love, it can’t rain forever. The sun must shine again soon.

My love, oh my love, where did your smile go? There’s none other like it.

My love, oh my love, there is so much left to live for. You just have to keep waking up.

In the Middle

"I understand that you would like someone else and I am not the who you always believed I could be.  I get that I'm not smart or anything special and I'm sorry... I am so sorry," I sobbed into your perfectly ironed shirt as the others continued their shouts and the war marched on. We sat in no mans land, right in the middle of the crossfire, innocent beyond belief watching our town burn down, paralyzed by the fear of what our own imaginations created before us.

"That's where your wrong, you are and you have been for a long time. Because to me you are smart, pretty, and very much special, and without you i would be nothing but a empty shell of myself, you make me feel like i can take on the world and nothing will stop me. You have the power to enable me to stop a charging Rhino with one hand, to have 1,000 arrows shot at me and i wont feel a thing, but you also have the power to bring me to my knees just by the wink of your eye or the flick of your wrist." You answered as the bullets slowed until finally they just stopped coming our way all together.

Piggy Bank for Minutes

Thank you for saving a little time each day for me. I understand that it isn't always easy.

The Remains of a Galaxy

I was taught to believe that we are all made of dust and ash, but that was false information. You are made of stardust.  Growing up they told me that we're all here for different reasons but to do the same thing. Only we aren't because some are here to live and others are here to  love.  (yes, it does make a difference.) And they always said that all of us were born the same way. We weren't. I was an accident of pleasure.  You were intended as the last hope of a generation.

How It's Going to be

Three years later, a new girl sits cross-legged on your bed. She tastes like dew painted leaves instead of sunlight. She opens up that book you read in high school, it's pages filled with lessons you were too young to learn just then and streaks of yellow that meant the difference between life and death back then - even though they mean nothing now. You watch her thumb through the pages slowly as a picture of us flutters from the chapter we swore would one day be just like ours. We've been forgiven for not keeping our word the way good boys and girls almost always should. But never mind that, her face gets a little darker and she asks about the photo:

" I dated her when I was younger, I was older than her, that was a while back, it's nothing anymore," You explain with fragmented comments of the already fragment-like thoughts. Your heart nudges your soul and whispers, "When I hold you, sometimes, I pretend that you're her and that your chocolate eyes are hers filled with endless fields of bluebells. Her eighteen karat smile was everything I needed to light up my shadow plagued world of twenty years. I will never forget her, it was too perfect then."

Don't worry though, I'm the same way when I'm in his arms at the movies or in his lap after work when we just don't have the energy to stand nor to sleep. I don't think he's realized it yet and I'm sure she wouldn't mind.

Stop Impersonating the Sun

I need you to promise to tell me the truth. Every time. Even when everything's not alright. Especially. When everything's not alright.

Crystal Ball Visions

When the storms start heading your way do not be afraid. All anyone could ever ask of you is to revel in the chaos. It merely makes you even more gorgeous of a soul than you already are.

Be well.

Just Passing Through

I promise I will never forget you. 

Keep it up, Sunshine

You have no idea how much you have done for the people around you simply because you looked their way and smiled.