I like words.
I like watching them
f
   a
       l
           l
together
m e l d i n g    i n t o
                   one
large collection
of feelings
thoughts, emotions,
               d
           r         e
       a      m       s
and stories
that you whisper
before I drift
                      to
                          sleep.

20 marked
a year of transformation
and redemption.

21 is marking
a year of compassion
and healing

In my short few years,
I have learned that chemistry
is to hear someone speak
and feel their sentence structure
so fully and richly
that you feel like you
are the one who is speaking

It is blinking once,
twice,
rapidly
because you feel as if
you have met them before
and there is an energy field
that is both invisible
and impenetrable

your eyes
communicate silent
conversations
and you can't
take your eyes off them

at the end of the day,
I always come back to poetry
as my medium of expression

short enough
to write and capture
rather quickly

flexible enough
to encompass everything
in exact structures

predestined to make the same mistakes
for every year

to love the same type of man
an athletic build
energy that lights the room
and a shield around their heart

but for a moment
out of the view of everyone
i watch their eyes soften
through the corner of mine

and i try to imagine
that i am the reason for this.