Kindness
was a house.

Knitted by
knowing you.

It was made
of sticky notes.

Encouragement
aching for actions.

Friendship
is the fuel.

Hearts only
in its windows.

Looks didn’t
really matter.

A firm foundation
invisible.

Gates of wisdom
walk to it.

Depression
laughed at it.

Gossip galloped
away from it.

The golden rule
knew better.

Stoic pines are uprooting,
Careless rage
of an indifferent wind.
And when the nerves are exposed
It dies in spent shudder, to our stupefied awe and vulnerable repose.

Rubble and dust
spinning in swirling disks
around the fire
until one place
of greater attraction
draws debris to itself
and coalesces into an incandescent planet.
Earth and sky begin
full of promise.

Something has been changing
inside me
since I met you,
Feeling you within
makes me smile
as I melt into you!

I’m falling in love with you,
you may know,
you feel that,
I’m losing myself
to find a safe place
in your loving heart!

Day and night,
in peace and in strife,
I just think of you.
I can't tell
when you entered my dreams,
when I fell in love with you.

Let's enjoy
the midnight moon up close
and count the stars
Let's walk together
for the rest of our lives
and wipe our tears!

tonight, i pull my blanket up to my chin
unsure if it is to comfort or suffocate
whether i slumber for good, or to wake
in a world most unfamiliar