Michael Timothy

“I promise to live a life so rich of love that at the end I will not be so shy of death.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“Don’t fear,
her father said,
sometimes
the scary things
are beautiful as well
and the more beauty
you find in them
the less scary
they’ll become”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“I don’t believe in magic,” the young boy said, and the old man smiled, “You will, when you see her.”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild

“Obsession is not love,
infatuation is not love,
when someone ignores you
or treats you poorly, carelessly,
or with indifference
that’s not love—
that’s a lack of love,
for yourself, for trying to fill
your missing pieces with theirs
but when someone is whole
and you are whole
and you act in kindness and benevolence, vulnerability
through strength,
love becomes an exchange
with another person—
and that is
its truest form”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild