What A Beautiful Thing: To Fall In Love
You don't need a ring
I just want to bring you somewhere
To fall in love
To fall in love with someone
To yearn for them
To catch their hem
To feel their energy intertwining with yours
To feel like you're pushing through invisible doors
To notice the goose bumps in your chest cavity
Got you learning how to defy gravity,
As they walk by,
As they laugh, as they catch your eye
What a powerful thing it is to wink
It works way more than you'd think
They got you leaning over the brink
Making you wanna buy them a drink
Who knew what it felt like to be winked at?
How do people even do that?
How do they wink in a way that looks so cool?
Ohhhh, and see, now you're beginning to drool
You'll see what a beautiful thing it is
To fall in love
To fall in love with someone
With their every move
With their every groove
To observe them so closely you almost fall in
To feeling like this is the one day you might win
To seeing their ways
To watching their days
To appreciating their skills
To wondering about their Super Nintendo kills
To admiring their gentleness and care
To watching them at a distance hoping they're unaware
To singing in your heart to theirs
To hoping they can hear you
To hoping they can see you
The way you do
To hoping
To hoping they can see you too
The way you do
When I Grow Up, I Will Be Visible
Constantly
I think it comes from working backstage
From always having to hide behind a page
To be unseen
To blend in between
To be out of the way
To move when someone yells, "Hey!"
To be like an elf on a Christmas shelf
Or a fairy when you lose your teeth
Visible and appearing when needed
Or invisible in order to be heeded
I don't know where I should go
Or if I should just say no
I just want to be seen
No longer live in between
If you can, I can too
And maybe you'll notice my baby blue
Dress in the sunset
Walking somewhere that isn't wet
Dancing in the moonbeams
Living past sweet dreams
Stepping into the spotlight
Before we say goodnight
ILY
How you fold your napkins before my eyes
How you drink Powerade to drown your cravings
How you obsess about building your retirement savings
How you eat pretzels one by one
Playing your own game and having too much fun
Allowing your saliva to break them down
Always remembering to wear your crown
Grinding them into a dust that you swallow
Always with one foot into tomorrow
I love that you always wanted to be a setter
That you're always trying to be better
That you use movies as karaoke opportunities
And constantly try to build community
That for a snack
You say, "F*ck your serving size, I'll eat the whole pack,"
I love that you believe in self-care
That you wear bunny ear ribbons in your hair
That you workout every day
That you shake the blues away
That you have a deep passion for grapes
And you make banana pancakes that taste like crepes
That you are secretly terrified of apes
And wish that every romantic partner greeted you by the nape
That you always have measuring tape
That you know any blanket or towel is also a cape
I love that you hug your bed each morning
And bring people gifts without warning
That you wake up singing,
Ears ringing:
“Wake up wake up wherever you are,
And meet the young lady who fell from a star”
I love the spaceship that is your car
How you'd rather never go to a bar
How you whisper and hold me so I don't go too far
How you've never tasted a Cuban cigar
How you have zero interest in Nascar
How you're already writing your 2nd memoir
How much you cry at Pixar
How you love and hate Streetcar
How you write weekly emails to HR
How your grandmother told you you were a superstar
How you refuse to try Caviar
How you got me switching up my repertoire