I embrace my desire

to feel the rhythm

to feel connected

enough to step aside

and weep like a widow

to feel inspired

to fathom the power

to witness the beauty 

to bathe in the fountain

to swing on the spiral

of our divinity

and

still be a human.

1) Write letters to the people you love.  Don’t seal them; don’t send them.  Instead, stick them between the pages of library books.  2) Eat raspberries off your fingertips.  3) Venture outside and observe natural life.  Watch a honey bee suck the nectar from lavender plants.  Watch a snail slowly make its way towards the shade of a tree.  Watch a hummingbird innocently fly above your head.  Realize how insignificant you are.  4) Smile at strangers; say hello.  It will improve their day and your own.  5) Write lists.  They can be about anything.  6) Read several pages of the dictionary.  Learn new words.  Write down the ones you wish to remember.  7) Never feel compelled to apologize when you don’t feel sorry.  It’s okay that you’re honest.  It’s okay that you have a different opinion from someone else.  8) Read books and watch movies from your childhood.  A healthy dose of nostalgia is okay.  Immerse yourself in your past innocence.  9) Walk to a park and get on a swing.  Go as high as you can; feel limitless.  The world is yours.  10) Eat if you’re hungry.  Food is not the enemy.  You are a human and need food to survive.  You deserve to eat.  Put those raspberries on your fingers and sprinkle sugar on your tongue.  Taste the summer breeze and sweet aroma of jasmine flowers.  11) Don’t marinate in your sadness.  You are not a steak.  You are a person; you’re irreplaceable.  Open yourself up to contentment.  Bathe in the rivers of Glee.  Go for hikes with Satisfaction.  Sleep in a warm cocoon of blankets with Bliss.  Let endless happiness overcome your hopeless sadness.  You deserve to be happy.  If life is a game and you are the referee, be biased for once and let happiness win.
 
- The Wasted Generation
 

Love of mine
Some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light
Or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school
As vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me
Have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
Cause we'll hold each other soon
The blackest of rooms

If heaven and hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Hello there, it's certainly a pleasure to make your acquaintance. 

I am Human.  

You are the most beautiful thing that I've ever seen.  Maybe perhaps we could fall in love, want to?  I'll be yours and you'll be mine, we can speak those sweet words to one another but please keep in mind that they are only temporary.  We can make all the promises in the world to one another, but they won't seem to mean anything because eventually I will hurt you and you will hurt me.  We will inevitably cause one another pain, we will inevitably crush the heart and soul of the other without meaning to or even understanding why.  We can attempt to understand the method in which the other is familiar with love, the method in which the other has experienced love and is able to comprehend it, and we will nurture that love that exists within the other for a little while before we decide that we've had enough with unbiased understanding.  You don't really know love, you don't know the first thing about it, I will say.  I will make you feel more vulnerable than you have felt since you can't remember when.  My words will be like a vice to your head and to your heart, praying on your mind, making you feel like less of a human being all the while reminding you that you have no right to feel the way you do.  Our existence as we know it will be nothing more than head games and tears.  I will suffocate and manipulate you, I will elevate you just enough to bring you crashing down.    

I am Fear.  This is all I can promise you.  

As for the rest of it, you won't feel complete without me.  This may sound like a trick, and it very well may be, however the fact remains that I am the only other being that you have ever really tried for in your life.  You will not only dwell on this fact; it will become you.  Our childhood together will remain a memento of sleeping under the midnight sky while our bodies intertwined within sleeping bags and tents alike.  You knew that it was possible to love me more completely, but couldn't for the life of you comprehend how.  Closeness is all that mattered to us then, and very little has changed despite the fact that we're all grown up now.  Though we're considerably more brokenhearted and lonely, the fact remains that within our loneliness, we've always had each other.  Always.  Even from before the spark that first ignited the stars from which lifetimes and aeons gathered and disbursed, from a time before our souls met.  So we journeyed on in search, unconcerned for the time and space that separated us, but wholly cavalier regarding the long, hard journey ahead.  The only semblance of hope for our souls, like twins separated at birth, was the inkling that its other half existed somewhere amongst the universe.   That was enough.  And when you can't sleep at night, it's because you would have felt my arms around you and it will devastate you when you awake without me.  You will recall the way I brushed the hair from your eyes and whispered into your ear, while the cadence of my words compelled you to forget everything that you've ever known.  You will swear off sustenance because the lingering taste of my kiss is enough to satiate you for days on end.  You will look at our crayon-colored pictures and grow homesick.  You will recollect me in fragments scattered throughout your day.  When you remember the way in which I looked at you, celestial bodies will collide and burn and the earth will crumble below your feet.  You will fall.  You won't ever forget me. 

I am Love.  I will promise you forever.  

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