it has been one of the greatest and most difficult years
of my life. i learned everything is temporary. moments.
feelings. people. flowers. i learned love is about giving.
everything. and letting it hurt. i learned vulnerability is
always the right choice because it is easy to be cold in
a world that makes it so very difficult to remain soft.
i learned all things come in twos. life and death. pain
and joy. salt and sugar. me and you. it is the balance of
the universe. it has been the year of hurting so bad but
living so good. making friends out of strangers. making
strangers out of friends. learning mint chocolate chip
ice cream will fix just about everything. and for the
pains it can’t there will always be my mother’s arms.
we must learn to focus on warm energy. always. soak
our limbs in it and become better lovers to the world.
for if we can’t learn to be kind to each other how will
we ever learn to be kind to the most desperate
parts of ourselves.