The Invitation to Coffee

I'm not sure who you are today or what lies you are telling yourself to make it through the day, but I like the real you so much better.

The Subtle Storm

Today the world is grey and nothing is very clear. Don't worry, it's still beautiful and you are just fine.

Oh and have you lost weight?

The Glass Shattered Before Me When You Left

When I was little you came over every day just to sit me down on the couch and pointed out all of my flaws, your flaws, and the flaws of the world around me. I always listened quietly, nodded sweetly, and walked away screaming, "I hate you." Only now do I realize what you were doing. There was so much more love in those arguments than in anything else anyone has ever said to me.

Thank you.

The Scratch down the side

I love how you think that I am okay when I don't even know the meaning of that anymore.

The Cabbage Salesman

I'm not good enough for you. I'm sorry.

The Incredibly Shiny Star

I have this friend, he sleeps with strangers. And afterwards, when they are sleeping more comfortably than ever, he draws the most beautiful aspects of them on these tiny scraps of paper. Then he leaves the creations tucked safely with the rest of their belongings waiting to be found when they are needed most. I find it funny how no one ever seems to hurt when he doesn't call them or show up again in the places where they'd once meet. So, I have this friend, he sleeps with strangers. And I think you would like him.

The Adventures to be Had

No!

Dreaming is not what kills you.

The risk you take in not following those dreams is to blame.

The Warmth Can't be Explained

Just let me hold you while it all falls apart.

The Stamps Made Love to Dragonflies

Your excuses break my heart and yet I have never heard anything even half as beautiful.

The Words Needed To be said

Just in case no one has ever said it, Thank you. For all the beautiful things you do each day.

The New Old Classics

And if someone dared to write you down you'd be everyone's favorite book with the best explanations and no one would ever be unhappy again because living through you is better than being with Captain Nemo in his sinking submarine or with Jo trying not to hurt over her sister's death and absence. If someone could ever write you down instead of standing you up, you'd be a best seller.

The Skin Canvass

Someday you are going to be my greatest work of art

The Setback Is Not Lethal

I know this isn't what you wanted from life, especially this late in the game, but these are the cards you pulled and this is what you have created for yourself.

If it helps I know you can get through this. You are the strongest, most wonderful person this world will ever know.

The Melody of Our Hearts

Listening to music with you all the lyrics get new meanings. Thank you.

These songs will forever be ours in my mind.

The First Step to Happiness

I love how beautiful you make me feel without even trying.

The Newest Drawing Says

"I wish I were beautiful," whispered the butterfly to the rose.

"You ARE though," replied the rose when the butterfly was gone.

The Best Kind of Abuse

If you were ink I would uses you to write all the best things we've ever said on you.

The Songs of Sparrow Hearted Believers

Someday you'll be okay.

Just not today.

The Insane Asylum Doesn't Exist Anymore

You can sit there continuously trapping yourself within yourself, listening to songs that will never be played, reading books no one is ever going to write, seeing art that simply has not been created. But none of it will ever manifest anywhere other than your heart. Or you can stand up, scream light out into the darkness that is your world, and actually draft those sons that will bring people to their knees, pen the stories that will save lives, and draw what will bring guidance and hope when it is needed most in this world. The choice is yours.

The Way This Sometimes Feels

I know you like to think I am doing this for everybody else, but I'm not. I'm the most selfish person you will ever meet, this is all for my own sanity, my own peace of mind. You're just an added bonus.

The Places We're From

As they waited for his mom to be ready to go and his dad to finish putting on his tie, he held her in his arms, pulled her close and put his lips to hers. Gently at first, then adding more and more pressure and space disappeared. His dad cleared his throat as he approached the stairway they happened to be sitting on, “Well, then, should we be leaving you two alone or should we take her home?” Just then his mom arrived at the scene and smiled brightly, "You did good this time.”

The Reason We Chose Each Other

There will be times when I'm not sure what to do, when I am so scared or upset that I just don't want to do anything. Those are the times you will have to look me in the eye, and say, "We are going to have fun." Then drag me off the couch or out of bed to something better.

Don't worry, some days I know I will have to do the same for you.

I just thought you deserved a warning.

The Honest Tombstone

As sad as it may sound now, someday you will die. And when you do, I will write:

"You started out as ash. You lived as a brilliant star. You exploded in flames so remarkable they caught the attention of the entire universe in a single moment. You will not be here but you will not leave. You have been forgotten but you will be remembered."

And you will no longer live but you will never be able to die.

The Last Kiss

One last time the bird squawked to the sky, "If I told you to forget about me, would you?"

After a moment of thought, "Never, I would remember you for all of time," replied the blue, blue sky. The bird flew on in silence, but failed to fly again.

The Burning of the Sun

Even your pain mesmerizes me...

The Innocence the Freedom and the Lack Thereof

"You are strong," fields and valleys and blades of grass remind the flower buds so innocently trembling against the wind gently, curiously, unknowingly raping them.

There are two sides (or more) to every story. Everything happens for a reason. Never fear.

You should know that by now.

The Empty Classrooms

Today you will do your very best because that's the only thing you know how to do. Just know tomorrow will be better. Better than better. Better than the best. Everything you've ever wanted, nothing you've never needed. Because tomorrow all the questions you ever asked will be answered. Tomorrow every bad moment will be replaced with better ones.

The Patterns of Bark

"I am covered in scars like those," an ancient tree informs a butterfly with skeptical glances at the trunk and branches of such a beautiful creature.

"But what caused them?" posed the butterfly gracefully, kindly, almost perfectly content in curiosity.

"Battles. Some with myself. Others with someone else." answered the tree almost instantly.

"I bet that hurt," remarks the delicate butterfly.

"Never any more or less painful than waking up each morning," laughed the tree as the butterfly took a leap into the unknown breeze and flew off again, never to return.

The Way Water Doesn't Worry

Be careful. If you keep talking like that people will think you're in love.

The Reminders

If you are tired of everyone else getting here first.
If you know me better than you know yourself.
If you want a change of scenery.
Meet me in the park tonight at 8.

I've got somewhere to take you
and something to show you.

Somewhere only the two of us
can ever go.
Something only the two of us
will never do.

The Longest Night in History

I've never seen a more memorable, more beautiful, more mesmerizing sight than watching shadows and light fight over your features again and again. The battle would get so close then the light would always win. There was a spark in your eye even in the darkest of times, a spark that reached out and just held my heart, so surely, so sweetly in it's imaginative hands as though everything would be okay. As though we were exactly where we were meant to be. So I stood before you being as happy as I could ever remember being, and I melted for you, I jumped with you, and together we learned what it means to love ourselves, to love each other, but also to love the life we live. And for that, for all of it, I thank you.

The Modern Day Fairy Tales

You know I don't know what today will be like, but something tells me that everything will be okay. Just make it through one more day and I'll be there tomorrow.

I think it's funny, the princess saving the prince from himself instead of him saving her from towers too tall to climb and misunderstood dragons and misguided mothers.

The Real True You

I hope you are always able to remember how happy you are right now, in this moment.

The Sharpened Thorns

I've never really been the kind of person to break before I even fall, but with you everything was always so different anyway.

The Cartoon Rose

If someone is beautiful you need to let them know.
                       If they only have thorns you need to let go.

The Setting Sun Behind us

A change of scenery wouldn't hurt you at all.

Now's the time to find it.

The Birthday

Hey, Green Queen, happy birthday darling! I hope its a wonderful day!

The Bumpy Road

You know that there are people out there who have it worse. That's the first step. Just keep going. It gets better. You'll see. Don't stop here. Not yet. Please

The Thoughts Buildings Have often

Why did you come here just to leave?



(this isn't about you. It's not about people. I really am leaving an important physical place)

The Feeling I hope You Never Understand

And all the words I read now, the ones with new form and stories too deep to comprehend, all the words I read have traces of you left behind between the lines. They all sound so pretty until ghosts start asking questions and shadows begin quoting the things you quoted that I am reading again but for the first time. And all these words, they are so perfect, just like you, but they have multiple meanings now and too many stories to count.

P.s. I know I shouldn't say this but I hope ive done the same thing to all your favorite songs

The Promise Sleep Made Me

And as you sang me the lyrics to all my favorite songs and told me stories of all the wonderful things we'd done before Sleep pulled me away, she promised to bring me back in the morning. To return me safely to your arms safely in tune with the patterns of your breath breathing mine. She swears there would not be another moment in Time for anyone once Death reached out for my hand, so she had to protect me just a little bit longer, for your sake. And everything was so perfect for the first time in so long. You wouldn't know it unless walls could talk but Sleep promised me she would bring me back as long as you promised to still be here in the morning. 

The Star You Were Meant to Be

I just hope you realize that the world really would be a colorless place without you.

The Togetherness of Timing

There is a beautiful person reading these words right now.  They feel the breath of everyone else to ever read them. And they are wondering if that feeling is as good as the feeling of a lover's words dancing on their neck or not, but I hope they realize with a lover like you nothing will ever come close to that feeling of being tangled within yourselves. Whether it is figurative or you are actually between silky sheets and sunrise. These words stir memories and memories of memories of memories long forgotten and never replaced.

You are beautiful.

Thank you.

The Path Away from Home

Today was not a day at all. Merely a gap in the time space continuum.
Because you weren't here.

The Clock was Slow

I know I'm late, again, but I'm on my way. Got stuck in traffic. I'll burst through the doors with roses in one hand and scribbled words in the other. Just for you. I'm on my way.

The Pages Made Love to Sparrows

And you'll forgive me for not writing my best work lately,  its just that life as life so often does has gotten in the way of living again and I need some time to find myself once again.  I think you need a bit of a break too anyway.

The Title Doesn't Sound Right

Angels lie to keep control and until you are able to see that I think it is best your wings remain tattered and torn, blackened and bruised. Even good things come at a price. They have darkness inside them too.

The Clay Untouched

As a human you cannot just stop suffering, but you can use that pain to expand your experiences and desires. The more you ask for the more you can receive. You think, now, that I am crazy. You will find this again someday and you will understand. And the next time you read this you will change your life for the better.

The Most Important Promise Yet

And I will stand here in the white-hot heat of you doing everything you have ever wanted to be done, dancing with you to all your playlists, writing words you will not read in this lifetime (but maybe in the next), promising you only what I can keep. And on the day you decide that you deserve better, Hell will freeze over and the sun will disappear. And I will resurrect all the sad things that you currently make completely irrelevant. Because that is what our hearts need from us. Because that is what our souls have asked us to do. Because that is what must be done when you love a person like you.

The Song Bird

You are so talented. That's why they cage you. Why they keep you here. You need to fly. Taste the sky. That's why you were born. Share your talent with the world.