When you don't put your passions to use,
leave them unmarked & unloved
in collectible cases up on the shelf,

When you don't put your gifts to test,
leave them wrapped & tucked away
in the corners of "some day,"

Do you feel like you are wasting your life, too?

I dream to string
words together,
that one day
someone might sing
them & say
that I mean
everything to them
in every way.

Where do I start
where do I begin

I dream he'll string
words together,
that one day
he might sing
them & say
that I mean
everything to him
in every way.

Where do we start
where do we begin

I want someone
to sing to me
that I mean
everything to them
in every way,
& in return I
will sing the same.

It's when you sigh
after
I kiss you
deep
& the sound of our
laughter;
It's moments I want to
keep.

Dreamer until I die/Doer as I am still alive.

Tousled hair,
Friday's cologne,
I thirst to sip you up.

Last night I touched a hot pan
& today my fingerprints seem to be missing
& turned to smoothed over glass, no longer skin.

Long list of Starbucks lovers.