nobody knows what everybody knows;

all you ever were
youve always amazed me, from the very first day.


you know when youre asleep
and youre dreaming youre falling from a cliff
and you jump in your bed
cause it startles you?

or when youre asleep
and youre having the best possible dream
about the greatest thing youve ever imagined
and when you wake up and realize your still in bed
and how disappointed you are?

or when someone tells you your beautiful
and the funny thing is
you just woke up
and decided you had to go to the store
and so you feel really great
knowing they appreciate you just how you naturally are?


well, being around you was always more surprising, more amazing, more disappointing
than all of those things combined.



love stories always made me sick
how so much beauty is expressed in them
and how so very untrue you know they are.

but now that ive felt it
ill always have more respect.

poor cinderelly, all dressed up in her finest clothes
to impress the boy she loves.
poor snow white, asleep in her casket
waiting for love's true kiss.

i wonder if theyll ever realize
that they, themselves,
are always enough.

i wonder if ill ever realize
that i, myself
am always enough..