Your first impression
Was exactly what it needed to be,
But it wasn't me.

We learned to love
While writing poems of ninjas
And better days.
The kind of love
That only best friends can have,
That only we
Could share.

In a different world,
Maybe things would have been different,
But I wouldn't change today
For the world.

Staring at a blank screen,
television oddly silent,
even though the silence kills.

People never talk about
how lonely alone time is
and yet I'm sinking into the
night sky, all alone.

I wonder if I'll
ever learn to love myself.

Tomorrow came and went
without warning
or compromise
and we aged
without knowledge.

Yesterday
was 9 years ago;
nearly a decade behind us
and we run towards the wind,
no inclination of stopping,
no regard
for the realities ahead of us.

Let's age into the infinite
without guilt or remorse,
without a full realization
of how far we've come.

And it floods,
without reason or care,
without rhythm or sense,
without rhyme.

And here I am
left in the downpour,
picking up the pieces
that never should have fell,
that never should have broke,
that never should have been.

I know
No matter how hard we try,
Our life will never be perfect.

We’ll probably never be rich,
Never be famous,
Never be known –
We’ll probably never save the world
Although I won’t give up
On that dream.

Despite this knowledge,
this lack of perfection,
I see smiles on our faces
As we grow old,
Hand in hand,
Heart in heart,
In love.

If we always live
In this rented townhouse
With free cable
And your parents’ pets,
I will be happy
Just knowing I go home
To you.

Swirling,
so uncertain,
so cold, alone,
unknown
and yet,
once I knew
of arms so warm,
of life so carefree
where you, and me
we wandered through our days
without a glimpse of pain
and now all I know
is how little I know
about us.

Glass shatters,
startling the mind of
an elusive dream;
there is little in this world
that comes easy for you,
but that means nothing
when you succeed.

The time has come for you to venture out;
independence is a silent killer,
lurking through the never ending days.
I know what you fear most is yourself.

The unpleasant truth is
you’re the only one who can get you through these days;
you’re so much stronger
than you realize.