Unburial

It's been too long since I've seen words like this.
At times,
I too come back and read.
I remember
I feel
But I expected no one else to share in that.
Do you really?
The idea of that thrills me.
I'm not sure why.
Maybe it's because
despite the separation and lost time between us
I still entrust you with knowing my heart.
What a thing that is...
What a wonder.
If I knew someone was listening
I would have kept talking.
I would have yelled and laughed and stated
every feeling I had.
But I thought I was alone.
Thank God I'm not.
Thank God.

Move Along and Settle Down

It's not a bad idea to turn around and look back.

Every now and then I do just that.

But now I'm sitting here wondering

about all the sorries and okays.

About everything you've said in true regards

Did your agenda match my intuition?

I think not.

The sorries never patched things over

God only knows they were just bridges

Get past the momentary evils and move on.

We were only waiting to crash again.

And I know the fights have become too often

Too many to take on with everything else

It's a common conundrum,

and Id prefer not to think about

the way you both look at me now.

I grew up to become the sum of your lessons.

Isn't that enough to know I'm safe?

A mind well learned and versed in the troubles of 

a volatile world I have learned to walk well.

Shouldn't that be enough

just to know that I know?

That I can take care, stand up, push forward?

That I can feel and think and learn

and still, I can dream.

And I am.

Cause I am happy with what I have.

Would you be happier with just a little but more?

Would that get you where you're comfortable?

You would always want a little more.

It's never enough

and it's still getting colder.

Life will catch up to us all, so I won't keep running.

Settle down, and I'll settle down

into everything I have now.