take my picture at my funeral
i'll be looking peaceful
take your picture at my funeral
i'll be right there with you

Oh, to regress to a child
In a splendid grove gardened
To accommodate growth
The last thing desired '**** ripened

i feel like he loves me
down to my every flaw
and that he would love me
for everything he ever saw
and if i could be
just the least of his worries
to trouble his hair and to
make memorable stories
i'd let him know fiercely
how much i did love him
and kiss him so dearly
our hearts safe to dive in
i feel like i love him
down to his every flaw
and that i would love him
for everything i ever saw

I wish to construct a poem that has rules and guidelines to follow.
I want to perfect the art of composing a page of black and white sorrow.
I'd like to articulate all that I'm feeling with grace and with poise to spare.
But what's there to say when I haven't the space or the heart or the mind to care.

i'm in over my head when you laugh and i can't take my eyes off your smile i don't want to get over your maddening ways i want to kiss it all out and place my hands on your face i want to hear like you do and see what you see i want to live young and free and taste you on me and for every day that i can't forget i want to feel it within me and breathe in your scent so give me one day and that's all i'll ask for one day at a time will make days the best and i've been trying to say only one thing to you since the day that we kissed which couldn't be true but right now it's eye boogers, ear wax, i love you

i have this vision of you on our bed with the sun shining through our big windows
and when i think of this daybreak touching your skin and going through your hair to my lips
i feel such serenity that i know if heaven exists,
it's right in you,
it's right in me,
it's us

i never want to love another man

and baby your love makes me high
lacing my smiles and dreams over night
to where i can touch the stars in your eyes
and the scars that we hide
away from this world
you're the way to my heart, my rhythm and blues
that will flow and that part, and forever be true

Caress my tender *******
So I can feel my tender heart
And bathe you with my tender tears
To have you kiss me tender kisses

When I kiss you I'm seeing the sky
I'm feeling the beat in my chest of too many flurries of thought
I'm closing my eyes and hearing your laugh
I'm tracing your features and making a map
When I touch you I'm waking from this daydream
I'm listening to your voice and what you have to say
I'm closing my eyes to let it last forever
I'm hoping to send my love your way
Like October, you calm my fears and wake my mind
You fill my lungs and warm my bones
Like October, you illustrate my dreams and give color to my skin and
Like June, I'll make you smile
I'll sweeten your days
I'll shed your fears and race your legs to our sunny place
Like June, I'll lay my head across your freckled back to commiserate the stars
I'll liken your eyes to the rays of the day and your mouth to the lake of the night
I'll be with you still if you travel far and I'll be the grace if you be the might
For every day I spend with you and every month to pass,
I'll love you more and more I know
For love is the only thing that lasts

In isolation I will forge god's strength and mighty hands and I will build a sepulchre
In isolation I will trace the stones with which I make this manor
With memories I will walk and lace the room with my softest words
With every dream of every love lost, I will plant my feet among these crevices
And I will bathe this sacred hold with tears of joy and light
But quieter still, I will embrace the shadows so contrite
Whether this grave is for me or for you, I will never know
But I have loved and carved and constructed this silent, sleeping grove
For every end that may come to pass, I hope you hear me say, every word and every sound by sleeping night and waking day

I forget so many things.
I forgot the way my sister and I played when we were young.
I forgot why I thought I could teach my brother how to read.
I forgot how my mother broke her neck and I guess she nearly died.
I forgot how my dad had cancer and we went to see him in the hospital.
All I remember now is you.
I remember the first time I met you and I didn't know I would love you.
I remember the first time I said sorry to you and meant it.
I remember when I saw your car for the first time and I thought it was cute.
I remember the first time I talked to you on the phone.
I remember how you made your best friend laugh, and I envied that immensely.
I remember the way you made the stools symmetrical in the kitchen.
I remember holding your hands in my hands before they felt my body.
I remember the patience you had with me while teaching me your song.
I remember the first time I wanted to touch your hair.
I remember the first time I wanted you to touch mine.
I remember the way the sun hit your face and made me think of the future.
I remember the first time I wanted to kiss you.
I remember the first time I held your head and how it gave me butterflies.
I remember the first time we kissed and I couldn't believe it.
I remember the first time we joked about feelings.
I remember how scared I was you were kidding.
I forget so many things, but I will never forget you.

And I'm sorry about ever knocking on his door.
You deserve better,
Better than me.
And I'm aching for you.
You deserve better,
Better than this.
And I'm trying not to cry in your arms.
You deserve better,
Better than us.

My evermore and everlast, to be yours, to be true.
To be fabled a task unconquered- lay with lions and kiss them too.
I will spend a thousand years doting on your every move.
My evermore and everlast, to be yours, to be true.