“I love you because I am afraid of the dark and can't sleep in the light....because you, with all your magic powers, were determined that I should love you. Because there was nothing for you but that I would love you. I love you because you made me want to love you more than I love my privacy, my freedom, my commitments, and my responsibilities. I love you because I changed my life to love you.”
― Love Poems & A Good Cry
― Love Poems & A Good Cry
“i’ll plant a garden on top where your hurt stopped.”
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
“little black boy on the bus with his toy dinosaur, his eyes wide & endless
his dreams possible, pulsing, & right there”
― Don't Call Us Dead
his dreams possible, pulsing, & right there”
― Don't Call Us Dead
“All we can do, I believe, is take the love and give the love and try to remember who dreamed dreams of us. And try to be faithful to that.”
― Acolytes
― Acolytes
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