Dear Someone

Frank: "What about you? Is there someone else?"
Kathleen: "No. But there's the dream of someone else."
 - You've Got Mail

- Your Shadows

I develop crushes quickly

It is

perhaps 

My great romantic flaw

I hold myself back

when the person isn’t right

I am polite though cool

no invitation can be found

for anything more

than acquaintance

When I meet

a kindred soul

spark to my spark

and the possibility

of compatibility 

(and all things more romantic and less practical)

I cannot still

the flutter in my heart

the hopeful murmur

of what might be

Love,

I promise you

in all and any past crushes

I merely found good traits of yours

to admire

to seek

to one day adore all the more 

in you. 

- Roadmap 

Show me your scars 

they are maps

pointing to stories 

Let me trace them

while you tell me all 

for a good way to know someone

is to know the pain they wear

just under the skin

Pain can run deeper than happiness

(yet for the bitter, where'd be the sweet?)

Let me understand

then together 

we’ll build the best foundation.




 - Wik ("life")

In the slow-repaired wreckage of my heart
you found resilience
you found the secret garden
to which I only give you 
the key.