Breathes

He breathes in

He breathes out

He breathes her scent

He breathes her doubt

Wants him to go

Wants him to stay

And he knows he’s

Never going to go away

And in the fight

In the dark night

They will threaten

To turn out his light

But he breathes in

He breathes out

Knows without doubt

He’s going home

Tonight

The First Time

If it's the first time,
Whatever it is,

It'll be like the first time
You ride your bike

without the training wheels

Or the first time
You spend the night

Away from home

Or the first time
You go away to camp

For an (entire) week

Or the first time you stand
Up in front of class

and give a speech you wrote

Or the first time
You go out with someone

On a real date

Or the first time
you kiss someone

Who's not related

Or the first time
You decide to do something

Even though you know its wrong

Or the first time you 

move away from home

And suddenly you're on your own

Or the first time

You realize that this is life

for the rest of forever

If it's the first time
you do something, anything

it will be like all the rest

of the first times

Because if it's the first time

it doesnt matter if you are 5,

or 25,

It's always a little scary.

Always a little exciting

And always unmistakably,

The first time.

Glass and Paper and Pebbles

My heart is a rock
It's hard and cold
It feels nothing,
Locked in a cage
It's alone.
I'm alone

My heart is made of glass
It is no longer smooth and clear
It is chipped and clouded
and dirty.
It dangles above a cliff
By a single thread.
If I fall, I break.
If I break,
I can never come back

My heart is paper.
It is folded and scribbled on
and tucked out of sight.
Its torn and my tape can't
Hold it toghter anymore
If it gets touched
one more time
It might crumble and slip away
I might crumble
and slip away

I'm a stone, a pebble
I am nothing,
I sit and wait
for what I don't know
but nothing happens;
I'm not pretty or shiny
I'm just plain
Then, for one ridiculously
Glorious moment
I get stuck in a shoe
Stuck in someone elses life
For a moment, I am happy
finally, somthing is happening
To me
and then they find me,
pick me out,
Throw me away
And I'm alone and scared
And everything is different
When I finally grow comfortable
and feel whole again
Someone thinks I'm dirt
and they sweep me out again,
a shoe kicks me away.

But then a handpicks me up.
Finally, I feel wanted
Loved!
And I'm flying free,
Through the air,
...but it wasn't meant to be
because now I've fallen
and the water surrounds me
I'm drowning
I'm drowining, and there is
No one there to save me