Engraved on my heart you will find
Everlasting love
Always on my mind

This friendship I will treasure
Forever and eternity
Even after our bodies decay
I know our spirits will fly together
Through kingdoms and passionate creation
Through invincible beauty

The Earth is not where our friendship will end
No, this is just the beginning
It will go on forever.

A heart that yearns for love in return,

Lost in sorrows and burning bridges.

Yet hopeful, till moonlit night's reborn,

Love may die but for a thousand ages.

Is our friendship over?
If so that's okay. I know
people come and go
But I don't want to let
Something meant to be to
Leave when it's in my power
To change. If the door is closed
I can accept that and move on
But if the door is still open
And your hand is still on this side
I will gladly grab it and hold on.
Something pulls me to the door,
Some thought, some intuition,
That wants to see. Something that wants
To know if the door really is closed.
Something tells me it is not.
So here I am, at the door,
Looking for your hand.

I used to idolize you
And I could never believe
You would deliberately hurt me
You didn't mean it
It wasn’t your fault
A million excuses
Exchanged for a million bruises
That lined my skin
In semi-permanent remembrance
of you

Five years later
I can still see those black and blue marks
That once blotted my skin
But now I am awake
And no longer oblivious
To your lies

5 years of slumber
1,825 days
Or 43,800 hours
And even 2,628,000 minutes
Of being blind to you

But the mathematics do not matter
Because you do not measure
Pain the same way
You measure time

Finally speaking, 5 years later
After being silenced by my own mind
Trapped by the fear that no one
Would understand
Let alone care

5 years of being scared and afraid
Like an animal
Who was hit too many times
Only because I was too ignorant
To run from what I thought
Was love

And now it has been three days
Since his return
Old wounds have resurfaced
5 years worth of scars
Of bruises
Of horrible, horrible memories
All oppressed by my notion
Of what love really was

I can feel my skin become tender
From where you used to abuse
Your power

But the difference now
Is that I am strong
I am not measly
Nor weak
And I will never cower
Below your shadow again
5 years of recovery
And torture and pain

But now I can live
The rest of my life
An eternity with an infinite
Amount of possibilities
Because I am not scared

Not anymore
Because after 5 years of being weak
I arise from my hibernation
And come out courageous

What if I were a better friend to you?
Would you still talk to me today
Or would things remain the same?
What if I were a better lover to you?
Would you still be in my arms
Or would you still have fallen for his charms?
What if I were a better son to you?
Would you still care for me
Or would I be but a distant memory?
What if I weren't alive?
Would people miss my presence
Or would people not even notice my absence?
I just don't know...

Baby be mine
Til we see the end of time
Wash away like tears in the rain.

Darlin' tis true
That I've loved you
Since you came dancin' to me through the rain.

Dear can't you see
As I sit upon a knee
That you have taken me out from the rain.

Beautiful you know
As we age and our roses grow
Our flowers were born from the rain.

Angel I weep
As you turn to sleep
And my tears now fall down like the rain.

From the moment you were born, to this point in life, you have been unique.

You do not need X amount of people justifying the very thing you should have the confidence to know.

Today, sticks and stones may break your bones, and words may hurt too, they call you different, saying you are a freak.

Tomorrow is another day, and your beauty starts within shines throughout, embrace it. Let it show.

Be original and be yourself, because the last time someone tried to make everybody the same eleven million people died.

Never let someone’s ignorant words keep you from the right to love yourself for who you are.

Your different, everyone is, keep it as so, let your uniqueness and differences show, NEVER HIDE!

Search inside your heart, inside your mind, you will see that beauty resonating, embrace it with all that you are!

From this moment until the rest of your life, you will be unique, enticing.

Live your life how you want, do not let people bring you down, when the time comes, chose the path most enlightening.

confidence
something I've not yet mastered
confidence is only doable
when I'm plastered
confidence
says more than words themselves
confidence is a book
that I tucked on the highest shelves
confidence
the unread page
confidence in the book of social skills
why learn it when I've got these pills?