![]() ![]() You will put the win in winsome … lose some Kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it is sent away. When your boots will fill with rain and you’ll be up to your knees in disappointmentĪnd those are the very days you have all the more reason to say thank youīecause there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop When you step out of the phone booth and try to flyĪnd the very people you want to save are the ones standing on your cape When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises. That there’s be days like this my mama said ![]() To look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind I want her to look at the world through the underside of a glass bottomed boat Ok, there’s a few heartbreaks that chocolate can’t fix,īut that’s what the rainboots are for because rain will Or else find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change himīut I know she will anyway, so instead, I’ll always keep an extra supply of chocolateīecause there is no heartbreak that chocolate can’t fix. You’re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trailīack to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire I know that trick, I’ve done it a million times Your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal.Īnd baby, I’ll tell her, don’t keep your nose up in the air like that I’ll make sure she knows she does not have to wear the cape all by herselfīecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, So the first time she realizes that Wonder Woman isn’t coming ![]() There is hurt, fear that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetry Wait for you to get back up, just so it can kick you in the stomachīut getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. So she has to learn the entire universe before she can say ‘Oh, I know that like the back of my hand’Īnd she’s going to learn that this life will hit you, If I should have a daughter, instead of mom, she’s going to call me Point B,īecause that way she knows that no matter what happens,Īt least she can always find her way to me.Īnd I am going to paint the Solar Systems on the backs of her hands, ![]()
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