please find yourself
amongst the crumpled up papers
from darker times.
please find yourself
amongst the sugar-sweet dreams
of future times
the things you don't believe will
happen at all. please find yourself
a mile high from the ocean and
stranded too far from the stars.
please find yourself
amongst the bruises and scars
and trees and school rooms
and houses and cars
while you try to forget
what used to be yet never
really was meant
to be; please find yourself
with a smile like denial
and a laugh of defiance
and a grimace at beauty
because we're special like that -

please find yourself
in an airport terminal,
heart beating like a drum roll
and bring me back.