we are young

we are young

we still see the same world

we see the poverty

we see the depression

we see the broken

we see the lost

we don't have many years to back us up

we are independent

we don't want to learn from your mistakes, we want to make our own

we want to see everything for ourselves

not from stories 

we have eyes to capture everything

ears to hear the music the world makes

and to hear the cries of the lost

and the hearts to bring them back

not back to us

not back to a church

not back to reality

but back to love

we are young

but we see everything

and feel every emotion that rips through us more than anyone

we fall hard

we love easily

one glance and you would have us in a heart spin

beating hearts

fluttering eyes

we may be oblivious to many things around us

the price of milk doesn't matter

who buys our land doesn't matter

we see the bullies, we feel them the hardest

we are either for them or against them

we don't sit on the fence

we have such passion

even us, 

the ones who haven't been places

seen things

only heard

and only told

but we are young

but we are as powerful as anyone else, and maybe more so

our hearts beat with passion for justice and for the world

we are more of the world

because we are the world

we are young

we are free

we are dreamers

Grace

you were born with no limit
to walk miles amidst dreamers
no breaking point
no end

some see you as not important
they won't learn your language
they won't dance with you
capture you
live with you

out of their fear of the minute you will run dry
the thirst on their tongues
hunger in their belly
hope in their eyes
the screaming confusion that cries out

it makes the scribbles into a masterpiece
a hole into a well


you are limitless this they need to know
so they can hold you and know
that Grace is perfection

Tea.

I am drinking chai.
This makes me happy.
Good days are to come.

you are here.

it feels perfectly right to have you filling up my mind and becoming the rhythm to my heartbeat.
to have all of you engraved in my thoughts to where it becomes who i am.
the taste of you on my tongue with every word that leaves my body.
to feel you on my skin with each goosebump.

everything i am begins and ends with you.
everything i want to be starts with the thought of you and ends with the hope i have in you.
everyone i want to love, is loved by you.
everyone i find frustrating, is loved by you.

you are here.
when my heart is filled with unsure dreams and colourless thoughts.

you are here.
when my friends choose a different path.

you are here.
when all i need is love.

you are here.
no matter what i do, choose to do, or are destined to do.

you are made for here, and i am made to be with you.
nothing in the world is as comfortable, normal, reassuring, or peaceful as knowing that you are here.

here with me. for the rest of my days, and forever after.