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Time stands still

Beauty in all she is

I will be brave

I will not let anything take away

What's standing in front of me

Every breath

Every hour has come to this

The trees of my childhood are not the trees of your childhood.

Let me tell you about my cedars; my forsythias and honeysuckles; the way I used to plant cherry pits in the front lawn because I was greedy for their blossoming.

Lift up my skirt and I’ll show you where the blackberry brushes had scratched me.

Lay me down in a hammock hung between your childhood and the man you have become today.

And we’ll kiss once, twice, and a third time for luck

beneath the cherry blossom petals that I had fallen asleep beneath when I was too young to know anything but innocence.

And the dark bark will be a darker midnight against the spring it blossoms.

Skeletal. Moonless. So heavy from the rain.

And your hand will fold a flower behind my ear.

"When I meet you, in that moment, I’m no longer a part of your future. I start quickly becoming part of your past. But in that instant, I get to share your present. And you, you get to share mine. And that is the greatest present of all.

So if you tell me I can do the impossible, I’ll probably laugh at you. I don’t know if I can change the world yet, because I don’t know that much about it — and I don’t know that much about reincarnation either, but if you make me laugh hard enough, sometimes I forget what century I’m in.

This isn’t my first time here. This isn’t my last time here. These aren’t the last words I’ll share.

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I think of happy when I think of you so wherever you are I hope you’re happy I really do I hope the stars are kissing your cheeks tonight I hope you finally found a way to quit smoking I hope your lungs are open and breathing your life I hope there’s a kite in your hand that’s flying all the way up to Orion and you still got a thousand yards of string to let out I hope you’re smiling like god is pulling at the corners of your mouth cause I might be naked and lonely shaking branches for bones but I’m still time zones away from who I was the day before we met.