Commit to loving yourself completely. It's the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime. - Andrea Gibson

Just to be clear, I don't want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there better be a thousand separate heavens for all my flying parts.

Here, I shall be useless.
The world can go on without me.
Here I shall be held by love.

My mother used to knit my mittens too big so they’d still fit me when I grew. I wore them and looked like who I wasn’t yet. I feel that sometimes when I’m writing poems — like they don’t yet fit. Do you ever feel like the best of you is something you’re still hoping to grow into?