-See With Your Heart, Not Your Eyes.
-Find Joy, Not In Success, But In The Steps To Success.
-Love With All Your Being, And You, In Turn, Shall Be Loved With All Their Being.
-A Guarded Heart Is A Dormant Heart.
-To Live Is To Love.
-To find solace in death is okay

Where I'm From
From Mother and Father 
Brother of 3 and Sister of 3
From Hyper-active Red 
Mother's home-cooked rolls

I'm from Connect 4 and Checkers
From Euker and Rummy 
From playing in the dirt and hiding from friends
The place where I'd hear 
"I can't help you if you don't talk to me"
From toys aplenty and chores afew 
From large trees 
Apple and Thorn

From sibling fights and loud noises 
Sarcastic niece and Rowdy nephews
I'm from air-freshener and scented-soaps
From country music and Catholic churches
From Love and care-free Joy

But, most importantly,
I am lost ties
Dead emotions
And locked in a cage
Is where I will forever stand
Away from where I came