Everyone you meet is fabricated in layers.
Their core is their soul,
and in order to expose it, you have
to penetrate the layers.
Although some people
require more digging than others,
the reward is all the same,
because everyone is the same that far down.

maybe
vulnerability is
not trying to fill the silence,
and allowing yourself
to feel

Listen to what people say,
Don't just wait to speak.
Listen closely and you'll hear
What it is they seek.

Listen to what people say
And hear the things they don't.
The silence in a pause alone
Will speak what the mouth won't.

I woke atop a bed of green
Enveloped in endless blue
Honey rays danced over me
Melting the morning dew.
Poppies all around me blushed
In scarlet and merlot
Daffodils and daisies peeked
Beneath the thawing snow.
I danced among the emerald hills
Tasting the wind’s sweet sighs
The rhythm pulsing in my chest
With nature - harmonized
I feared that I was still asleep
And all this, but a dream
And if it was, I prayed I’d wake
Atop a bed of green.