what the world needs now
I’m a retired hater
I’ve spent so much of my life trying to be unaffected and unattached 
I will love you with my whole heart now
Wholly, deeply, completely until I can’t anymore 
I will love you even if it makes me look stupid 
I will love you against my own benefit 
Because I want the world to have just a little more love than what I grew up around 
So even you reading this
Ya you 
I love you too

love the one you’re with
Some people spend so much of their life chasing love by falling in and out of love with the ideas of people
That they forget to learn how to fall in love with themselves 

the lover era
I think I came out the womb a fighter 
I don’t know that I ever had much of a choice 
But I came out ready for combat, barking orders, and flipping the bird 
I came out with attitude, resistance, and grit 
I came out running to 18 so I could be in charge of myself 
And I ran so fast that when 18 hit I didn’t slow down for another ten years 
And when I did finally sit the fuck down all I saw was the destruction I took part of 
The rubble I helped make, the rebellion I helped lead 
The smoke from the fires I either fueled or created
The wake 
I came into 30 ready for a new purpose 
I came into 30 looking to nurture and build, to create roots where I once tore them out and cut them down
To forgive and forget 
To empathize and understand 
To love