When I grow up
I want to be just like
A sunflower
Always growing taller
Reaching for the sun
Brightening every room I'm in
Rooted in truth and seeding the Earth with life
Wild, free and beautiful
I want to be like a Sunflower.

It seems like every dry spell
Gets longer and longer
If words are like water
Well, this county has been going through
A drought for quite some time
Use that water sparingly,
Restrictions apply from 6am-12pm
Don't exhaust
Your resources
It seems between essays and normal conversations
The supply has run dangerously low
But you,
You brought the rain
The rain that ended this drought
Thank you for being my reason to write again
The world feels right again.

I warned myself
Not to let a person
Feel like a home
But I let down my walls
And built up new ones with you
Reconstructing what I thought love was
Should have brought a hard hat
Probably hit my head when I fell
For you
You've got me feeling kind of silly
Feeling kind of light headed
But never faint hearted
You keep my heart
And my stomach
Full.

My words now
Seem only
Adequate
But I cannot seem to adequately
Put into words
What I want to say.

No one ever tells you  that
Even in the happiest place on earth
You can still feel blue
That there are things you have to do as a person
To thine ownself be true
These things that  will help you grow
Like taking vitamins
To strengthen your bones
But sometimes you have to take the vitamins
That you find disgusting
No one tells you that
there will always be growing pains
And you wont always have enough medicine
Or a mom close enough to give you the grape flavored medicine not the cherry kind
sometimes it just hurts
Sometimes you just have to let it hurt
life will give you more than you can stomach
But when you consume good things
You will produce good things
But the opposite is also true
Even being surrounded by people
Thousands of people
You can feel alone
Because nothing,
I mean nothing
Is ever quite like home
And home is where the heart is
But right now mines far away
Making the best out of what i have
But feeling  low today
Sometimes you just need to be
Surrounded by people you love
And being a thousand miles away
Is difficult when push
Comes to shove.

let's wander
exploring new places
we'll wonder
how we could ever be the same

let's ponder
oodles of  ideas
and over yonder
we can make a new name

our comfort zone
may feel like home
but heaven knows
where we might roam
discovering that where we're from
is not all that is to come
there is more than your hometown
be willing to live upside-down

let's adventure
into the unknown
this will quench your
curiosity

let's take the bench here
and appreciate the beauty
we'll entrench your
heart's ferocity

the only map we have to guide us
is the voice we have inside
the paths that we can take are vast
no more looking to our past
only we can choose our fate
our journey is what we create

and if i were to compare you to anything
it would be to how i like my coffee:
strong enough to wake me up
when nothing else will  do the trick
sweet enough to remind me
that there is still magic
but most importantly i want you
warm and pressed gently
against my lips.