They say love finds us when we’re not looking
you see me running down a barren street.
Naked
With scars on my chest
giving it my very best
all for the sake of love

You stop me
ask me why I don’t seem to rest
ask me about my bleeding scars
upon my bleeding chest
I turn and say I’m afraid of who I might meet.

I’m looking for someone to hold me
to wrap their arms around me like the planets orbiting the sun
my heart has too much space.

You shed a tear and say I love you
that’s when I knew I had found my place.

I’ll give you everything
I’ll make you my wife
I want to be with you for the rest of my life

Make earthquakes in my heart
Devastate my bones
Tear my soul apart
to restart
my life with you
Never let me go alone

Make my heart your home

We hold each other in the night cage
I play with your hair
Lock me up for safety
I don’t want to be scared
The monsters are under the bed

From past loves and scars
You fight on my side in the war of my heart
You say our love is the constellations bowing to the stars

I dream
but don’t remember falling asleep
Forgive me if I weep
but love is a word I’ve never managed to keep
Until now

Come by the window.
Count the stars with me
when we grow old we still won’t have caught enough for all the reasons I love you.

Love
the word is a sunrise
Throwing light over the world
Show me a new day
Where being in love is completely okay

Crosses on roadside
Did not scare me, until I
almost became one.

Some days I am Ana's teacher, some days she is mine.
This morning, we look through her kitchen window,
the one she can't get clean, cobwebs massed
between sash and pane. The sky is blue-gold, almost
the color of home.
Ana, I say, each winter
I get more lonely. Both of us would like the sun
to linger as that round fruit in June, but Ana says
it's better to forget what you used to know...

Rest with me
melt languidly into my arms
persistence reprieved

Allow me
grant this moment to pass
productivity be ******

Trust in me
my passion is passion
ambition denounced

Give yourself to me
I understand your value
progress so ill-conceived

I am a dreamer
I fulfill her destiny
*I am the place time comes to die

Sometimes
I look at beautiful things
And I ache
All over

I stare blankly
As my eyes cloud
With loneliness

I'm drowning
In my own mind

I need something
Anything
To revive me
Something
To make beautiful things
Feel
Beautiful
Again

Thank you for loving me
And I'm sorry that I cannot do the same
For I seldom express my love
And am only capable of causing pain