• For you I leap centuries.
    For you
    I will swallow the light until it’s deep and dark
    and everything that’s supposed to matter does.
    Until the lonely leave their homes
    and the voice that narrates my thoughts is somebody I’ve met and loved,

    There’s a girl in a coffee shop writing advice on napkins and I can feel somewhere in my bones it’s right, it’s true.
    Goodbye notes are never ever forgotten because they don’t need to be

    We don’t need streetlights because we’re safe under the stars,
    and we don’t need walls to close us in
    because cold is a myth
    and blood doesn’t freeze here.

    Love and God are everything we hoped they would be
    and people turn their pennies
    right side up and shining so somebody’s stranger can always find luck.
    Together we’ll spend lifetimes in slow, sweet mornings, where eyelash wishes forever come true.


    For you, I will make this world and fill it with the sound of the ocean.
    I will build it peeping through your fingers
    and with a thought to the grace of your eyes.
    For you, it will float always on the way your voice echoes in the rain, and it will be warm because your children are laughing and growing up brave.