Because you are my one and only
I'll never let you feel lonely
No matter how far we are
You'll always be my star

You'll always be the soul
I can't live without
I only have one goal
Which is without a doubt

To love you for eternity
Through all the insanity
To always fight for you
And to always stay true

It's only been a year
Yet it's so clear
You and I were meant to be
I promise I will never flee

Because you are my one and only
I'll never let you feel lonely
No matter how far we are
You'll always be my star

The only one bright enough
To light up my everyday
Every second of my life
I hope you always stay

Such a hunger
     holy hunger
         and thirst
              such joy
                   such peace

A Holy Place
      to be

Such a memory
     to return to

The Presence of God
      is in that place.

Cj 2016

Where do you start
To mend a heart
How about tape
In every place
Maybe with glue
If that doesn’t do
Sew it with thread
Maybe instead
Don’t break it, to begin with
Dj

I remember the day you asked if we had always been this way.
If the love, or at least what we thought love to be, has ever been.

I looked into your eyes and I really considered telling you the truth.
Wouldn't that be a first?
I looked into wanting eyes and I could feel your skin trembling.

I told you that we had always tried to make each other feel numb, a little bit dead inside, just enough to keep us going.

I told you we were both so terrified of feeling more, that we are still so desperate for touch, that we never would have been able to touch each other properly.

I told you that a part of me abhorred you and that a part of you had always felt the same for me.

But the truth is my sweet, I love you in every version of you and me. In every way we thought and still think love to be.

The summer sun falls behind
a horizon of fire.
The last light of day
turns the sky into an ocean,
*and I let myself drown.

We are purposed beyond ourselves

To know and to love,

But first we must understand

The eyes with which we see.

Teach her not feminism
but femininity

for as she finds herself
only then,
rapt in purpose

she will know
what is worth fighting for