Inside every person is potential.
Inside every person is strength.
Outside every person is pain.
Outside every person is hardship.
In the middle of this scale is you.
Only you decide which way life will balance.

Frosted glass on a speeding train.
So deeply do I wish to see the other side.
For past the one-way mirror is your dark hair and childish laughter.

Clearly the glass sparkled with brilliant green and what is now the scent of dust was once fresh air entwined with newly tilled earth.
Many many years have passed since then.

I even pull out the chisel of regret and pain to divine past this wall. Anything is worth a momentary glimpse into the past where you are still alive.

For now, until the day we meet again, pictures and words will have to replace the now faded memories of your smile and childish laughter.

Rain smears across the windshield,
hushed tires roll down the dark countryside.
Trees with bark as black as the stormy night sky
walk single file into the darkness.
Words flow effortlessly between us in the heated cabin.
The gentle discussion of ideas and emotions are as endless as the pattering moisture from the moonless sky.
So numerous are the drives we have taken together.
So many fights started and ended on those back roads.

No matter the years that pass by like fleeting shadows.
No matter the seasons dancing from hot to cold.
You are my life, my sun, my everything.

Once told to me by a great philosopher,
start now typing any letter at random.
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Keep going until you have written the entire works of Shakespeare.
Billions and billions and billions of years shall pass before this is ever accomplished, if it is ever.
When you are done, you will have barely entered into eternity.

Once told to me by my heart,
start now writing out your love for this amazing woman.
Add to that; a book with infinite pages and a quill that has limitless ink.
Dry will be the bottle and paperless will be the book. Still will you have only scratched the very surface of your love.

Leaning against the wall, a long strand of soft brown hair outlines your face and hovers near your chin.
Soft lips are turned up in a smile. The striking brown in your eyes are fixed. So bright is the light shining from within. In all my days, no joy comes close to what I see now.
Following your gaze over the couch and past the battlefield of toys and crumbs, there they are.
A beautiful blue eyed boy with pure joy. He stands beside his sister with the biggest grin as he stares up at her. Just amazed at how she can clap and sing at the same time.
A beautiful brown eyed girl with overwhelming energy. Even crowing along to a children's tune, her stance rings of strength and a deep knowledge yet to be unlocked.
Breaking my gaze, I return to you. No longer can I be apart and I take the short three steps to you. Standing behind, I pull you close and smell your beautiful scent. Softly I kiss your head and there we stand.
All the long days and sleepless nights fall away in these moments of pure beauty and joy.

A warm breeze drifts through the soft grass and white clouds. A bright blue spreads across the sky, only partly broken by small puffs of white.

The only hint of moisture is the small glint that is sneaking from the corner of my eye. Reflecting in the window of my soul is a beautiful woman, my beautiful woman.

The melodic chirping of the birds, bright sunshine and blowing wind all fall away with each step that brings you closer to me.

"My god, how do you do it?" I think to myself. "Every day you grow more beautiful."

You stand before me, brown hair immaculately dressed and your brown eyes shining so bright. I pray to father time to stop for us. Let me hold this very moment in my soul forever.

You pull a note and read your vows, so carefully arranged and filled with love.
I pull a note and read my vows, so carefully arranged and filled with love.

Leaning together, we kiss and tell the world something we have always known. We are one soul.

The window is frosty from the chilly winter night.
A heater is pushed to its limits in the corner and the room has the feeling of  a sweltering summer morning.
Thump----Thump----Thump
The loud beat of my heart is drowning out all sounds and thoughts.

So soft is your hair that I'm truly feeling for the first time.
Pale and smooth is your skin as we lay together for the first time.

We lay so close your breath enters my nostrils and breathes life into my soul. So close are we that the magnetism I feel with you in the room is now the force of a giant star that sends its rays into the dark eternity.

Ever closer we lean into each other. Each moment spans into another and into another then into another. Time stops and looks at us.

Our lips touch and in that moment you breathe life into my empty soul.

LOUD is the breath rattling in my chest.
COLD is the sweat pouring down my face.
STONE is my body and TERRIFIED is my soul.
ughwaa ummm.... I fight the terror.
sweet is your voice as you speak to me
warm is your skin as you pull me close
vanished are the demons from my mind as I drift off to sleep.

Adrift above a field
Warm light and cool breeze mix amid my yellows and blacks.
Weary are my eyes
Staring at the horizon for a brighter day.
Weary are my wings
Flitting from purple, to red and then to blue.

Dangerously close to being carried by the breeze
Far away from my goal. My eyes nearly close.

Sudden and amazing life returns to my limbs.
All other shades and shapes turn to grey and fade away.
Bright are your petals that shine in all directions.

I have reached my sun and my stars.
Forever will my days be illuminated in your astounding light.

So much emotion churns within me these days.
Like a tantrum thrown over an empty cup or missing snack.

Joy so free the winds of change stop to appreciate.
Like curly hair bouncing on a sweaty forehead from a toothy laugh.

Pride so high mountains of gold are rust in comparison.
Like shining light in cool blue eyes.

Fear so deep as the endless chasm that can be quenched as you check each passing breath for life in the dark night.

Pain so strong as the purest steel bound with the hardest memories and worst decisions. Yet resolute in anticipation of the crashing waves.

I watch the gentle rise and fall as they sleep.