You made me created me formed and fashioned me fit to be queen sprouting wild and free fruit so lush surely no eye hath seen What you planted deep inside me Aching forth now... my destiny. See, your name on my heart your love on my sleeve My life song on your lips AS WE Dance into eternity I’m your Pitch perfect delight So Simple yet Graced Secured Posture and frame. Power in hold tight. Being led shifting weight All without any movement. Your love’s firebrand on my life This life waltz bears your name Away my breath, you take The you give it all back And I raise you up again shifting weight All without any movement . your glory remains. And the curtain opens. Gratitude floods these veins And I freely melt Shifting weight All With much movement Fully alive In me You reign. Proclaim Your Victory As we Twirl And We Dance And I Rise

From here to there There to where, Not sure I know Don’t think I care. Just UP OUT of this place Is where you'll find me Hate on me throw shade on me just give up locating me. My 20 is my business. And finally you ain't mine.

One big house, one bright child, one tall white picket fence, Two incomes and then some, Three-car garage and four bedrooms, Five times seven is number of years left on the note, Six ten eighteen years in, oceans of tears, battle-scarred hearts, few wins all the WHILEST, our textbook plug-and-play church life kicked in

• AND THEN

I met you. And my world stopped, and it turned upside down and like sand in an hourglass, precious time slipped away, but the longing remained AND SO the furnace was ablaze As I looked into your eyes, I saw my future go up in flames and What man, society, and blue-collar planning built collapsed, charred, and burned to the ground BUT WHAT remained, is my future in your face and our one blue flame combusting throughout all eternity.

Counted on myself until that one day I failed to show up. Long list of fall downs from Humpties pledging to hold my crown Until they didn’t. So, who’s left to trust?

Your face is majestic. Dove’s eyes bleeding patience, gentleness, and love. Smile lights up the night more than the stars in the sky. Tired lines that are battlescars of both loving hard and of not loving the one you are with. Supple skin that sheds the sweetest of tears, and also invites one to take a drink. Your dreaming face is a brilliant canvas of hope and joy. Your winks and scrunched up nose speak of the adventure and passion that lay just on the other side. Your face delights. You delight.