i will do it if you promise to live i suddenly realize, what i really am. and thats me, and im fine. and youre sick. i would tell the world to pray for you but that would be betrayal, but the world has betrayed you enough.

its not that the birds fit in with the bees its the blue of the sky matching perfectly with the green of the trees and i look to the sky and know im alone but never, not ever am i without you as i walk in the dark on my lamplit street i know that you created the ground that sits under my feet and as i look to a home less than a mile a way i know you are there too and youre going to stay when the world goes back to how it was when you came its ungreatful people like me im going to blame but not you, you forgive and teach me the same.

"discovering love in a letterman jacket" don't worry, some day you'll know how i look in your coat. i'll look to you, and smile from beneath the sleeve of that coat and you'll take my picture. & i won't erase it because by then, i'd have learned. people occasionally like me in their memories-- selectively. by then, i'll learn i'm not some huge misshap. i'll discover love in a letterman jacket