I come from a breed that has a mom but needs a mother, that has a heart but needs a spark to jump start its beat, that has eyes that can't see you unless your being shines brightly, that has legs that walk for miles on end, that has knees that buckle and bend when it's too hard to stand, that has arms made to hug friends, that has hands formed to take hold of the wind and grasp it, that has ears that burn from politics, that has a mouth that moves mountains and a voice that wants nothing more than to say I love you and then prove it. I come from all that

You should not judge me by my cover,
Because I'm an open book
You won't be able to read me in one sitting,
Or see me in a single look
The pages torn around the edges
Words are worn from weathered eyes
But newer chapters ever changing
Are living life within these lines
Breathing
There are parts that can be painful,
Those paragraphs are most important
This current section could seem stressful,
I carry with me no regret
It may be strange to start in the middle,
There's no better time than now
I'll fill You in on sections passed, what you've missed, true and honest
Just ask and I will tell You anything You wish to know
So what do You say, care to read a good story?
Or better yet, play a part in this plot for me, and I for You
It's one that ebbs and flows, and never ends, and perhaps, You can be a character in
Would You like to help me finish writing it?

My life looks like my handwriting
Sloppy
Messy
Barely legible

Your love for me is calligraphy
A fluid movement of the heart
A cursive caress
A swift swoop of your stylus

My anger is stenciled onto me
In big block letters
Up and down both arms burning
To a furious fire in my hands

Your laughter uplifts me
An entire alphabet sings within it
It's another language
Filled with well wished words of wisdom

My sadness speaks to me
It's become my best friend
Whispering softly in my ear
That something has gone terribly wrong here
What I've worried about all along has now arrived

Your beauty is deafening
It came at me yelling and screaming
In an uproar that made me feel ugly
An unparalleled audible pretty
Before the silence muted me
You said everything I could ever ask for in a muse

I believe you can help my hurt
By leading by example
Showing and teaching me
The hand gestures of a happy life
The signs to communicate love
A beautiful return of sounds
A loud anger and
Sadness barrier breaker
Taking them away

When I hear this song and
My nothing becomes something
Then I will talk and hear again

I flood the world
While water fills my eyes
But you survive
Because you've built an ark of lies
You've gathered two of every kind
For forty days and forty nights
The rain fell
The plan was divine in back of your mind
The walls around me
Have me drowning in a well
You forced the storm to come and
Swallow everyone

I wish I was Jonah
In a whale in the sea
Tucked away underneath everything
In a deep dark empty belly
Hungering for anything

I've tried to fight like David
Tackle my towering demons
Grab my Goliath guilt and
Get over my greedy jealous feelings

But instead I'm Daniel
Lost in a den of lions
The threat surrounds me
Closing in
But nothing ever happens

Are you sure You're not a musician?
You've struck a chord within me
A tightening tension
A violin bow with fresh rosin
Drug across a string to sing
A welcoming friction
Note of pure joy

If I didn't know any better
I'd swear You were
A world renowned composer
You've made sweet music of my love  
It's penetrated my body and mind  

You've brought upon me
A kind of symphony
I never imagined I could find
Like it
Your every movement
Is a motion of Your majesty
Each phrase is a graceful melody

What I heard before was loneliness
I listened time and again
Over and over
Until You swept in and changed the key and
Played for me a masterpiece

It sounds great
When You arpeggiate
Your adulation for We
Every interval an integral
Part of Our pleasure
One by one
Each note an ode to Us
Ascending the scales of
Our hearts

We both intertwine
Like a divine hymn sung by angels
In a church built by fond feelings and
Free of devils

We will sing Our song
To the open sky
Letting all who hear know why
We were meant for each other

You are and
Will always be
My
Conductor of comfort

I stammer through my sentences
Like a stumbling drunkard ***
Holding out his thumb
For a free ride to anywhere but here
But he knows **** well
Ain't no way in hell
Is anyone gonna pick his wasted *** up

So I continue to talk and talk and
He try's to 'walk' and 'walk'
But it looks and sounds like
A sloppy tightrope tip toe or
A precisely timed and
Meticulously planned and controlled fall

Instead of breaking through barriers
My words begin to build walls
That trap and surround me
I can't sense how they're sounding
Until its too late and
The conversation takes place in my memory

I'm brought back to this stutter
An utterly annoying inarticulate attempt at
Conveying what I mean to mean and
How I'm feeling
Are you with me??

How fragile we are
To be finite beings
In infinite wonder and
Wandering

How frail we are
To block out the life giving sun
With the shade of technology and
The shroud of mass media
While still somehow managing to
Shelter ourselves from reality

Take a step back and
Take a look up
Everyone would benefit from this
But to ask it of all
Would be an order too tall

Some of us can
See straight through the clouds
To the truth beyond and
We know there is a burning answer

But don't let that fool you
Because let's face it:

Not every question
Has the right response
Not every problem
Was meant to be resolved
Everything happens for a reason
I'm told
But the hardest part
Is figuring out if it's good or bad

It's called life
Because you have to be there
To live it and
Prove that you're alive

It's called laughter
Because you have to lean back and
Let go and
Just let it happen

It's called love
Because you have to really try and
Learn from each other
To make it legitimate and
Lasting and
Real

So I don't mean to discourage any of you
Because everything is going to be quite alright
Just don't forget when your time comes
To be fearless and ready to fight