the world within reach

what you'll remember most distinctly:

- - - the beat of your heart, and

- - - perhaps the flavor of glittering

- - - joy bubbling to the surface,

- - - which at one point you thought

- - - you'd lost altogether.

meeting your eye in the mirror,

mine own, and saying:

- - - this is exactly who you

- - - are meant to be, and

- - - seeing the tears there,

- - - unshed, just glistening.

forget the way your hands shake,

and take a breath in, absorbing the

entire world in your serenity.

- glue your heart back together

- - take what you've been given and everything more

- - - waste no more time, feel the sun burning

- - - - and i think there's starlight underneath my eyelids

forever:

hold it and believe it,

because you are here,

exactly where you are meant to be.