Long day
looking forward 
to night 
when light 
and it’s 
drenching bright 
is slowly 
wrung out 
the raviolis 
sit swimming 
so timidly 
in sauce 

It might just 
seem like cooking 
and cleaning and 
taking care of 
to some but 
to me they’re 
acts of priority 
and of kindness 
and the type 
of self love 
that’s only possible 
when all else 
fails so woefully 

I bought time 
because I didn’t 
know what it
was I was
really looking for 
and I knew 
that if I 
had found it
I wouldn’t have 
known what it
was I’d found 
and so I 
bet my life 
on the chance 
that I’d make 
mistakes knowing that 
through my errors 
I’d eventually discover 
the right answer 
and there it
was all along 

Go by
the world 
while I 
sit here 
idly peering 
make haste 
for there’s 
little time 
to waste 
but here 
I’ll stay
and make 
a play

There’s this feeling 
of coming together 
be it cadence 
march or victory
when one thing 
and then another 
falls into place 
almost by accident 
or by mistake 
like little dominos 
but what nobody 
ever does see
are the baby
steps that had
to be taken 
before this cha
cha cha could 
dance with me