“If I never met you, I wouldn't like you.

If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.

If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.

But I did, I do, and I will.”

- Author Unknown

"What is beautiful seems so only in relation to a specific

Life, experienced or not, channeled into some form

Steeped in the nostalgia of a collected past." 

- John Asbery - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

When you are old and grey and full of sleep

And nodding by the fire, take down this book, 

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace, 

And loved your beauty with love false or true, 

But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars, 

Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

- WB Yeats

"Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably."

- Benedick - Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, Scene 2 - William Shakespeare

confession # 324897

sometimes, i must admit, i wonder what it 

would be like to be married to you,

to kiss you with possession. 

brodre

"the last time i saw you,
you were leaping off a bleacher
like superman into 
your father's arms,
thinking you could fly.

you always had that reckless gene..."
"and what genes do you have?" you ask 
with a wink that barely crinkles
around your eyes.
"awesome ones," i laugh.

"i'll bet. do you want to know
what other genes i have, or do
you already know?"

oh i'm aware.
you are genetically predisposed
to break my heart.