day 15

to the boy with the sweetest soul,

thank you

for making cavity smiles

and smiling root canals
worth it.

for showing more teeth than i should.

for feeling overexposed

but feeling modest.

i love it all.

the first time i saw you cry

it was in the serenity of my own eyelid captures

i've never seen you cry

only heard you talk about it

my ears

have played shoulder blade therapist 

to your aching heart

thank you

for turning your shoulders into secondhand homes

arms

and elbows

and ears

and hearts

i love it all

your friendship is my faith's finer replica

i feel the warmth of hope magnified to the thousands

when i spot a wave of your hellos

i throw butterfly smiles

and dimple love you's your way

at every awakening laugh that escapes your lungs

if only seeing you

were as easy as wishing

and if everything were as easy

as i wish
and if wishing were as easy
to stomach.

thank you

for giving me a reason to complain about absolutely nothing
for losing my taste buds when speaking your name
there is nothing more sweeter than to appreciate your presence
i feel myself rotting spoiled when i am around you
but i love it all

thank you for teaching me to never cry over spilled spoiled milk

sweetest soul,
there are things i've never spoken:
there are butterflies in every ounce of broken
drowning ears in every tearful complaint
empty stomachs from shallow cries
drilled dimples on blushing cheeks of girls that aren't worth your time
you are worth twenty six ounces of time in buckets
i wrap my hollow arms around them
and hurl them as carefully as i can.

time is spilling by the gallons
but you will never stop to give me butterflies
your friendship means more than monoxide escaping lungs

thank you

for listening to the never ending octaves of complaints i throw at you

discus style

wherever life throws me

our fate will be a boomerang away

take me with you

like a commercial frisbee

we'll be

an arm's length away

in touch.
i love it all