He is a poet and my god, he is amazing.
Poems from the Typewriter Serie is so plain spoken and beautiful. Mostly love poems so there's that but given that I have a great guy now it's ok haha.
You can actually google his stuff but buying the book is worth it. I stood and cried in the bookstore reading some of his work and embarrassed them hell out of my daughter!
A couple of favorites:
1. Sometimes you look up and there just seems to be so many more stars than ever before. More. They burn brighter and they shine longer and they never vanish into your periphery when you turn your head. It's as if they come out for us and to remind us that their light took so long to come to us, that if we never had the patience to wait, we never would have seen them here, tonight, like this.
That as much as it hurts, sometimes it's all you can do, wait, endure and keep shining, knowing that eventually, your light will reach where it is supposed to reach and shine for who it is supposed to shine for.
It is never easy, but it is always worth it.
2. Amazing
How manageable
Life
Can feel
With only
One blanket
And the right
Two arms.
3. Be gentle,
Always delicate
With every soul
You meet, for every single morning
You wake up,
There is someone
Wishing,
Silently
And secretly,
That they
Had not.
4. I promise you
I will try harder
To be better.
I
Have battled with things
Inside me
For longer than you know;
I do not know
What they are
Or why they are there,
I only know
That they feel
Manageable,
Defeatable,
When I
Am around
You.
That last one is where I lost it in the bookstore. My FOO & PTSD has been kicking my ass since I had surgery. Who knew that surgery could trigger that shit? It's actually a thing! I've looked into it! So that last one hit me hard and I actually had to put it in a card for my always patient, long suffering husband who has to deal with me when I'm a mess!
