“I’m a prisoner with no charge a sack of bones in varnished flesh walking around hoping somebody will root me.”

With you, I’ve found my permanent home.

Now if only at my worst had I known I was about to be at my best.

And darling, you’re safe here where these walls only want to watch you grow.

Your love is sirens loud and coming to save me.

That night I fought and I fought but your hold was stronger yet I knew even your hands could not hurt me more than your love has.

Your love is not just a feeling but a knowing.

And so she left, whereas then, she realized that just because she was planted here, does not mean here is where she has to grow.

Darling remember we are all the same with different coverings.

They wished you a home full of hurt but you deserve a home full of healing.

To the girl I used to be I appreciate you for a seed won’t bloom without its soil.

She pulled the thorn from her side and turned it into a rose.

Though I sleep with nightmares of the one who hurt me I wake up with the one who heals me.

In the morning she’s my sunshine and at night she’s my star.

I love to watch you become everything she said you couldn’t be.

You ground me as my roots grow I spread like wildflowers all over you.

Our pollen you thought infected us fed our bees and kept us growing.

If you ever get the chance to treat them the way they treated you, I hope you choose to walk away and do better.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.

I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

If you ever get the chance to treat them the way they treated you, I hope you choose to walk away and do better.

I can’t tell you how much I hope that you are my forever person.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man