You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.

I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong

Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.

I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.

This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.