Best Friends

Being best friends is less of a relationship type, and more a state of being.  It signifies "I am comfortable with you; you are comfortable with me, and in this we can be anything we want besides that, and remain, for as long as we are best friends, comfortable."

2015 BOOK CHALLENGE!!!!!

I SHALL READ THEM ALL!

Weird City

To The Weird City,
I'm sorry I can't be with you
Till I'm older and wiser and free
There's not time limit say, on the days I'm away
But someday, soon there I'll be

I dream about you daily
and the adventures I'll have on your streets
the places I'll go, the tan I'll show
the people I can't wait to meet

How is so hard to make it
living so far from the coast
but where my family is though, complaining of snow
"It's 80 degrees here!" I'll boast

I'm sorry I need more money
to make my dreams come true
I'm sorry I'm not perfect
but then again neither are you

I'm sorry I have not found you yet
My perfect home in the West
My Norther style of living
will put all I know to the test

I'll wait forever for skyscrapers
For the music the food and the sun
The dry heat for days, the easy-living ways
The city that fuels my fun

I'm sorry I haven't visited
I promise I will someday
But instead of for awhile
I'll say with a smile
"Austin I'm here to stay"

PERSONAL AD

For a Friend in Need of a Push in the Right Direction- A First Draft

To the wishful face in my mirror
asking how to move on
asking where to go from here
advice on how to be strong

stop blinking, stop crying,
start drying your eyes
stop wishing, stop hoping
stop accepting all the lies

Dare to dream another day
as you step out your front door
Don't discourage others who
are looking to find more

People move and change like airwaves
static up and static down
Just tune your radio one more time
the right friends can always be found

To the wishful face in my mirror
Who'd give the same advice to me
There's always another doorway
You just need to find the right key

Tech Troubles

I need a distraction

from the fact my friend won't focus on my face

But instead on their phones

Because I feel lonely in a world where

people hold bricks to their eyes and ears to block out others

My coffee grows cold in my hand as I try to have a conversation

Offering someone condolences on a bad day

But what do you need me for

You have Twitter

140 characters who can act better than me

Because I can't feign acceptance of the technology that takes over our lives

I want a real piece of art

A relationship not deluded by pixels and pieced together letters with no vowels

Because you can't think of real words to say to me

That's what I said, omg

I want a relationship to work because we can work on ourselves face to face

Not with a Skype icon in the middle

I'm a lets talk about life kind of woman

Who only uses iMessage to send a message saying lets get together

So that I can see the emotions as you talk and not the emoticons as you text

I don't live in a sims game, I don't need virtual people in my life

And yes I'm guilty

I do it too

But that's because I don't know what else to do

as you stare between the clear and blue blurbs on your phone

Waiting for you to make plans with someone else so you can meet up with them too

And text me saying lets do it again soon

What is the upper hand of the uninterested

What do we get from showing so little concern when it comes to clear communication and a respect of someone's time

So next time you pull out your phone as we talk

And I ask you what's up and you say oh, I just gotta send this message

Well you better check the time as well

Because I pronounce time of death on this relationship

But no worries right?

You can ask Siri for advice

For a Friend in Need of a Poem About Love -a first draft

There is nothing so frustrating as to be in love.
Nothing so painful, so slow, so tempting.
There is no such substance as is love that can make someone feel so daunted,
so somber of their life and surroundings
doubtful of who they are and what they represent
to other people.

Love is not about you, though
love is not about who you think you are
or who you want to be
Love is what makes you different from other people
love is the catalyst you pour into a mix to make all the flavors unique
love is so selfish as to make you think it is about you and yet so invigorating to find out that it is not

Love my dear, is not something you can hold in your hand and release
It is not something you can control or contrive
Darling, it's not on a timer but it doesn't last forever either
Not unless you realize, it's not about you

It's not about you and it's not about them
Love, you see so blindly
It's an uncontrollable force with a mind of its own
And while you should not join the circus,
a ringmaster can reduce a lion so it looks to purr
but in it's heart, it knows where it belongs

You may control it as well as a forest fire
You may tame it as well as the sea
you may follow it where it leads you
But only you can set yourself free

Love dear, is about not knowing what love is, but chasing it anyways.