your words make me smile bigger and harder than anyone else ever has; i love you and i hope you don't forget that
among the christmas lights, i must confess that on most nights the twinkles only remind me more of how grey everything can be
but when you're by my side... i don't think about anything like that

you are the smooth whispering sound of every vinyl i own
you are the sun on the snow
you are the light that makes my plants grow and all of my cliches don't feel so plastic and packaged as they did with everyone else

when you aren't home, there are days that are just a little to hard to keep going. days when my bed keeps me in its arms.
i heave a deep sigh and you ask me repeatedly what is on my mind,
i have to refrain from keeping the melancholy slipping between my teeth because i hate to bring you down.
i tell you the best thing on my mind: that throughout all of the troubling times this year has brought us, i am the most lucky person in the world to have you by my side.