sometimes the departure

from a broken relationship

is easier than the return of

discovering yourself again—

finding that little speck of hope

that is just enough to keep your heart

beating in the still of the darkness

when everyone and everything fades away.

but trust that the stars

will catch fire in your heart.

to love again and

to be loved so hard

that you don’t even think

about the brokenness of your past.

Of the sweetest sound,
Heart captivated by you.
My strong warrior.

i'm underwater
drowning yet you
continue to fill the tank with water.

her skeleton smiled
in the mirror and whispered
in her ear:
“fat doesn’t look good on you.”

i wish there was a sanitizer
to clean my heart from which you
tattooed your name on.

just once she wished for someone
to give her a reason to live.
she hangs off the balcony
wondering if someone is waiting for
her on the other side.

someday, someone's going to come along
and set a fire within my
heart that can't be put out.
someday someone's going to
restore this broken heart.

someday, someone's going to
walk me down the aisle.
some day, someone's going to give
me the world.

someday, someone's going
to give me a reason to say
"i love you" and mean it.

someday, someone's
going to give me a new beginning
and make this heart
alive again.

i put my hearts in a jar and placed them
on the shelf above my bed,
saving them for the One who deserves them.

Even in the wilderness
I can feel the calmness of the
Wind as you lead me to
The river to take a sip of eternal life.

Invisible hearts hide the most pain
and visible hearts bleed the most in
front of a crowd of by-passers who can’t
see their blood pouring out.
Instead, their beating hearts become bleeding hearts thirsting for life, hoping for someone to give it.

You’re my oxygen.
without you I cease to exist.

my worst day with you is
better than my best day without you.

the worst mistake was loving
you when your heart loved someone else.

You are wildly in love with me
because you made the stars and the
sun and the universe and everything in between.

You are wildly in love with me
because you cover my scars with grace
and you pivoted the mirror to
see all my blemishes yet still
chose to sing over me.

You are wildly in love with me because
you positioned the nails on the cross
to give me life.

in the wilderness
i found Your love
a love deep enough to
penetrate the walls of my heart.

in the wilderness
You spoke to me with
a tender voice
calling me home.

in the wilderness,
i fell in love You for
the first true time.

in the wilderness,
You stripped me bare
to make me whole.

her heart has been broken
so many times she wonders
if it's beyond repair.

the walls she once loathed
now surround her heart,
unapproachable by man.

each night she lies
awake wondering if
anyone hears her cries.

but He hears her
and tells her heart to be still
for He will dry her tears,
take her and restore
her broken heart.
for she is His bride.