stars and ashes

I fell for you slowly

your love for misty

mornings and splattered paint you paint

the world in metaphors and shout it quietly into the gray

and you exist in between

love and hate and happy and sad and sky and sea and whole and broken and you

you are human.

absolutely perfectly imperfectly human you teach me how

to cross bridges to move on to love to learn to grow

and i grew.

I grew in life as i fell in love

with the sound of cellos in your soul,

the clouds of rain in your head

and the life in your heart.

letters on computer screens waterfall showers cold noses and people and

every day i find more to love.

I love

I love

I love

and somehow

you love too.

we hold each other up, abandoned umbrellas we face the coming sun together

the sun will come.

For you and for me

your future is bright

stars shining through your navy heart it bursts

at the seams and you will do great things.

shake off the ashes and you will only grow

fall asleep only to wake up again

become more and more whole

and i'll be here every step of the way.

you shaped me just by being

your lessons woven

imprinted on my heart

and there is no going back.

I am who I am

and you are a part of that.

we will grow old and

gray like the sky you love and

your words will still remain.

no words from me but

thank you

im here

I love

and im proud

to have a friend like you.