“I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.”

Making me feel small won’t make you feel tall I’ve faced bigger giants than you and watched them fall.

I’m tired of fighting giants in my head.

Rest easy, dear heart grace has come for you.

I thought I had time until I realized the time had me.

I fell into you first slowly, then all at once never to recover.

You said you loved me but perhaps you never known what love looks like.

There are ocean waves inside these veins – constantly pulling me to you.

Your heart is my shelter, my handmade forever home.

I take a piece of you with me everywhere I go, so my soul never feels alone, and my heart always feels at home.

Peaceful dreams find me pull me from reality in their arms I land.

Grace is found flourishing beneath skin blooming from each scar.

I am the moments and memories from the past tied up with good intentions and mistakes from the future.

Growth is no longer seeking acceptance from those who cannot give it to themselves.

If you want to see the world as it should be, read poetry.

I fell for you dissolved like sugar in tea – completely.

I was quiet, yes but I heard all you never said, your silence read.

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.

The more open with ourselves we are, the closer we are to others.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.