Legacy is;
knowing where to hang your hat
and then knowing when to grab your coat.

When we were joyfulness,
we were secret fireworks.
and when we were bitterness,
we were wolves in plain sight.

It's not how many times I  retreat,
it's how many times I come back
that makes a man of a boy.

Never the popcorn
for a story untold,
little victories alone
that never unfold.

Never any applause
for a story unheard,
all the joys of day
and yet not a word.

Never saccharine sweet
the story unshared,
so chatter aloud
and let no one be spared.

I want the universe to look down on us tonight
on both you and I,
not as separate entities
but as two anomaly's collided,
though your side of the bed is empty;
in time it will fill
with someone whose light and dark matters.

Wherever your lone star is,
I want the universe to show you a small world
whose gravitational pull
occupies the space between my arms.

This is what I know of crushingly reckless beauty in
that which overpowers us like a wild storm at sea
or the impossible mountain;

The Devil is in the detail but God is in the whole picture.

These are moments
monuments were made for;
The times you love me like your last breath
and hold me like your last hope.
These are moments I'd mirror for you
forever and always.