I have to be in a really weird mood to write poetry, so I don’t do it very often. Even I’ll admit I have no great talent for it--I write it more to get whatever I want to express out of my head than in the hopes of creating anything particularly wonderful. I wrote this one for my boyfriend last Valentine’s day.

The Pieces of My Mind

Cars drone by me on the Interstate

I wish I had the energy to hate

The world has flipped, and tipped me upside down

Into a sea of dreams in which I’ll gladly drown

I wander far, but I’m not lost

And in the end I don’t care what it costs

I’m not okay, but someday I shall find

A way to kill the demons of my mind

Life is beautiful

Life is beautiful

I may be cracked, but I have never broken

Of what lies in my heart I’ve never spoken

Don’t try to understand

Just come and take my hand

And fly with me into my world of dreams

Where nothing’s real, and nothing’s as it seems.

Here nothing’s right, and nothing’s wrong

Here we, and we alone, belong

There is no pain, there is no fear

There is no sadness in your tears

Come, follow me

Perhaps you’ll see

That life is beautiful

We’re given life so we may live it

We’re given love so we may give it

We hold each other’s futures in our hands

Is that so fucking hard to understand?

So come with me--don’t be afraid

The path before our feet is laid

We only now must follow

Life is beautiful

Life is beautiful

And now we stand, alone, it seems

In a world of woven dreams

Soaring in the sky above

Sailing on a sea of love

Of life but little have I learned

God knows what bridges I have burned

But here with you, it’s all alright

With you I’ll linger through the night

And wake at dawn tomorrow

I cannot give you money, nor castles in the sky

Neither can I promise than I will never lie

I cannot swear that I won’t break, or crack a little more

All I can give you is my love, now and evermore

So come with me, just for now

Don’t stop to wonder why, or how

I do not say that you must stay

If you wish to leave one day

I’ll let you go, just always know

I love you

....I love you.