Nostalgia is okay
To get lost in yesterday
Not wallowing in regret
But swimming in
The remembering
Those people and things
We loved
Even when they are lost to us

man abuses
man kills
God disposes
God heals.

between
the
road of
life and death
still
we walk
towards
the
road of clarity

Like a spotlight on my soul
You enhance me, make me feel whole
Brightening my world
My happiness your only goal

Because of you I'm finally seen, heard and recognized for the beauty that I didn't know was inside of me
Emotions I didn't even know I could feel have been blossoming throughout my body

This spotlight may have finally made everyone see, but it's what it's done to me
It's shown me you and that is a blessing

a declaration of love
on lips so thin they crack all silence

a brush that draws the future
with its eyes closed

a dream
still locked in an hourglass

a match
afraid of the darkness.