A calendar adorned
My bedroom wall
And across the surface
I scribbled with the writing of a
Child
School days and dances
Sports and friends
Driving lessons and kisses
Life and love
The cartoon characters
Kept me company
The pictures made me
Smile
Bound pages held
Strong and sure
But still
I removed the calendar
Scribbled with writing
The days of my life
My moments
And threw the pages
Away
Grains of sand
Trickle through the timer
Standing guard
Against a ticking clock
I cross another day
Off my life’s calendar
For every time
I wish I could be someone else
I allow the rays of sun
To kiss my skin
The roots of our love
Took hold
And slowly it anchored
Our life
Threw good and bad
And up and down
And everything in between
Over time
Our love grew into a tree
Bearing fruits of grace
A billion stars flicker at night
Surrounded by infinity
I have to believe
In hope
I scratch my skin
And it starts to bleed
A raw wound
Waiting for time
To heal
A gray fog hangs over me
I try to run
I try to hide
I try to escape
But the faster I go
The blacker the cloud becomes
Today I am running away from
My anxiety
The black shadow that threatens to
Eat my alive and
Eat me whole
And so I hide in the confines of my
Heart fearing my mind and its
Relentless attacks
The crazy thing about
Falling in love
Is how crazy it makes you feel
Like the world is a Ferris wheel
Overlooking the most majestic of
Worlds and you are on the top
Only you and your other
And there is no one else
Or nothing besides
He stumbled across my pathway
Or I stumbled across his
Either way
We were friends
He was like a brother to me
A brother I never had
And through the years
We grew apart
He raised his family
And I raised mine
We never spoke for years
But when we did
It all came back
The love
The friendship
The bond
A
Story that
Still has
No end
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