We Need To Let Go And Lean Into Love

We let ourselves be defined by the ways we’ve been treated wrongly and we put up walls in hopes to never be burned again. All understandable, at first. But eventually you have to chip away at that tough exterior.

Eventually you have to learn to let people back in.

I Cannot Understand Your Mind, So I’ll Write To You

I wish I could make sense of your mind
the way I’ve always been able to make sense of my own.
Thoughts that slide so easily into poetry, into neat lines
and verses and words with a rhythm, calculated and perfect.

I Will Never Be Sorry For Us

I will never be sorry for how we sacrificed ourselves as we stumbled through, learning how to love another person when we were still trying to figure out who we were.

I Don’t Believe In Goodbyes

I don’t believe in goodbyes. I don’t believe that the connections we have to people and things are temporary. That somewhere along the way they cease to exist, cease to carry meaning, cease to be something real.