Take the time
To be better then fine

Be happy and content
Doing saddest with intent

Play with the rainbows
Bend over backwards

i wonder if you like
video games
or is breaking my heart
the only game you like to play?

your words slide through my veins like honey
and they
              d
                       r
                               i
                                        p

their way straight into my heart
and they
                    w
                                    e
    ­         a
                                                v
             ­                 e

a scribbled track all the way to my mind
and I just can't ******* breathe when you talk to me

three o'clock every afternoon,
you would come out to play
only fifteen feet from home,
mother wouldn't let you stray

said the birthmark on your feet,
a symbol for your itch to explore
only fifteen feet from home,
but you have always wanted more

drawing on the ground with pebbles,
making a canvas out of the street
bouncy steps on bumpy, hot cement,
careless of the dirt on your feet

running in wide, drunk circles,
scraping your scarred little knees
forgetting why you were laughing,
but you chased the sun, at least

she shouts your name from the house,
thick orange juice and sweet bread
a small towel on your sticky back,
she tied the wet hair on your head

the daytime moon followed you home,
with its humble clouds not far behind
how vast, you thought, was the world,
but it wasn't as vast as your mind

a.r.

Time lags when you're young
To allow wonder to win,
To let on a chance for palpable grace
In the exhale of existence.

im not going
to compete
for someone
who is not mine,
that is not the
game for me.