A few words

You Are my gravitational pull. I am enamored within a circus of asteroids, Fighting to touch your surface. Let me circle your bounty, I️ will spiral until the stars dance with me And their lights blur into Rembrandt’s greatest joy. Your green eyes, they are Stabilizing- Inescapable to my human soul. The one definitive in my aging heart- Life will always lead me to profess I️ love

I used to believe my biggest fear in life was Time. The tick tock of the grandfather clock Had anticipation written all over it. I used to fear that my future would run Short, But now I fear of moments without you. And maybe it’s contingent, The way I so passionately devote My life to yours. But maybe my whole life has been Leading up to you, The tick tock of my grandfather clock Had you written all over it. I am at home in your arms, When I struggle to fall asleep because Smiles and congenial touches Have to rest for a few hours. Now I wish to stop time, Existential polaroids blurred in my mind; My love, my soul is forever yours. The tick tock of your grandfather clock Has me written all over it.

Strong. I am losing my grasp on the world. Or maybe the world is losing its grasp on me. Why do I never learn? I have been here before. The ocean’s darkness will give birth to sunshine; I am made to float. Do not turn around, only move to the shore- Backtracking has no place in this life. Nothing is forever, no mind; Let go, watch this life move in uproar, I am on my own- feel the current soar. I am

It all came from people, Really. The Quran, the Bible, the Torah. Dialect: Said to have descended from Above. You have institutionalized the Father. The Most High Is holding a checkbook. The Temple Is lavished in gold. Your neighbor waits On the sidewalk. She reaches her arms Out to strangers. Hands gently cupped, She humbly asks for Bread. The Light is laughing, As Adam’s family tries To control The souls of all the people, The young fed by the old.

Sixteen will have its moments. There will be days when Words in black print consume your Vision and appetite, when Smiling faces blur into Phantoms lurking the halls, when The inside of your eyelids Become your favorite view. And, my love, that is okay. Sixteen will have moments that Turn your thoughts into a sea of memories, Experiences driving Forward, you will begin To learn that life makes mistakes.

You just have not found What you are here for, nothing Is forever, love.

The distant phone ring, Followed by the grim silence, Found my mother’s heart.

Her heart climbs into Her throat, grasping onto the Words once simply spoke.

You never learn, you have been here before, The night’s darkness giving birth to sunshine; You are falling through the winding glass floor, Your numb eyes misleading drive for finish, Your ears deafened from the icy incline; You never learn, you have been here before, Do not turn around, only move off shore- The road- no place to reverse or rewind; You are falling through the winding glass floor, Do not cry tonight, only move off shore- The sea- no place to reverse or rewind; You never learn, you have been here before, Love, you have not found what you are here for, Nothing is forever, darling, no mind; You are falling through the winding glass floor, Letting go, watching life move in uproar, You are on your own- feel the current grind. You never learn, you have been here before, You are falling through the winding glass floor.

The truth is I love you. Put it in stone and call it fact. No formula could prove me right, No formula could prove me wrong. I don’t know a lot, Who I am, what I feel, Why I am sad, why I am happy. But The sparkle in my eye at the sound of your name, The exhale from my mouth at the sound of your voice, I’ve lost words to try. I love you. That I know.