This is for Us

Of Course It Should Be

and so i looked to the sky and sung a song,
a song of sadness,
a song of reflection and anger,
breaking boundaries to build new ones.
i sung a song the rippled through my heart,
it rippled through the air,
strumming a guitar that wasn't mine.
and so the guitar and i sang a song.
a song that could never be repeated.
a song that i would never attempt to duplicate,
it's harsh words and subtle smiles, a song i never knew,
in a language i never learned.
and so, the guitar and i sang a song
we sang a song of hope.
- in a blue sky cathedral

laying in my bed,
wishing it were cooler.
wishing that outside my curtains,
was a glimmering moon,
framed by mountains and stars.
laying in my bed,
wishing for a body near me.
someone to turn to me and admit that
she can't sleep either.
so we'd give up together.
play music,
write poetry,
play games,
and bake 'till morning came,
when we'd drink coffee and
make breakfast...
together.
but... i'm just
laying in a bed,
listening to a song i shouldn't.
staring at a screen that i shouldn't.
wishing for something else.
- the night before the 13th 'first day'

the drive over might have been the hardest in my life.
i knew nothing had changed.
i knew it was the same as i had left it a week before.
not one memorable thing changed.
yet, when i arrived,
it was like a foreign planet.
maybe it was the palpitating heart,
after listening to a song i'd known since i was six.
maybe it was my watery eyes,
seeing the thirteen year seniors gathered to greet lower school.
but i think it was because
of the vision i had for that day.
to greet with coffee skin,
with her own coffee drink.
- did i dream too far?

i laughed
i cried
i prayed harder than ever before
and the entire time
my right hand was wide open,
waiting, for her fingers
to interlock with mine.
- retreat

out of hiding - steffany gretzinger
cracklin' rosie - neil diamond
promise you - karis de la fuente