i thank you for your words

the kindness and well-wishes,

the openness and offerings,

and the way you say them

i thank you for the things you've

said to me thus far, each and every one--

they've brought me smiles and warmed me from the inside out (a little each day)

and turned me towards the Hope (i have in Him) when i forget which way is up

i thank you for your patience and your

grace with me, each and every poem and misspoken word of graditude

and even when i've fallen short to have the words to say the simplest of

thank yous

(because those two words aren't enough to show how much i want to thank you)

i thank you for your compliments and the words you say

that remind me of why i write (for you and you and you and you)

the ones that say 'this is what i needed today' or 'thank you' or even the ones of

'no words', 'this made me cry', 'lol', 'i can hear you'

i thank you for this place you have given me

and can only hope to one day

write my way to sanity, or Life, or feeling okay

and somehow show you the way