I want to have dipped my fingertips into eternity and fingerpainted my heart with it. 2. I want to have shoved my fingers down my throat enough times to rid myself of self-hatred. 3. I want to nail the palms of my hands to the Big Dipper. I want to sleep among the stars, and allow their light to cover me like thick blankets. I'd like to learn the simplicity of the galaxy's effortless beauty. 4. I would like to create a vaccination to save children from the growing plague we call "adulthood." 5. I would like to create a vaccination to save adults from it, too. 6. I want to fill syringe after syringe with glitterglue and stab them so far into my veins that my heart becomes a disco ball. 7. I want to become the temple that you come to to pray. 8. I want to become what I will be without fighting to the finish line, and I want a canopy of fireflies hanging from the bone of my skull. 9. I want you to tell me that you are in love with my ears, so I can cut one off, become Vincent Van Gogh and make you miss my ear like I miss the twinkle in your eyes when you tell me you love me. 10. I want every freckle on my skin to become small islands you can lose yourself on. 11. I want to change the views on "skinny" and "fat" and remind the girl made of only bone that once upon a time I was made of only bone too. Then, I found cupcakes. 12. I want to spin the world upside down and yell "Look ma! No happiness!" 13. I want to pass on my DNA and create something that I am actually proud of for once. 14. I want to make my life worth more than just a poem, or a picture, or a forgotten memory. 15. I want to stop the hands on a clock from ticking past midnight to preserve the saying "There's always tomorrow!", because once that clock strikes twelve another tomorrow will be gone. 16. Most importantly, I want to have filled the hole in me with something other than ***.
And I want to fill the hole in you with something other than half-fulfilled broken dreams.