How to keep from crying in a public place And other useful advice When you are about to cry in public, Close your eyes Bite your lip, clench your fist Make sure you tip your head slightly back to make those tears return to where they come from If one or two slip out, it's not the end of the world It's just a little embarrassing Right when you swear she speaks like Jesus, She will roll a bolder in front of her mouth Try and hold her until she feels resurrected Know that she will lie to you She will say that she wants you to leave her alone, And that's the opposite of what she wants And sometimes she really just wants you to leave her alone Understand that she will leave you a different kind of alone Always Close your eyes When she makes a paper airplane of your heart with the intention of a lethal nose dive Fold yourself into the least aerodynamic form you can think of so she will be comfortable When you start to cry when no one is around Close your eyes Breathe deep Recognize that you are valuable Your hands are soft and your voice is beautiful Know that you are not her meant to be Tell her that you never meant to be so hateful Realize that she probably won't listen All the knots you tied just ended up leaving neither of you with anything to hold on you Be yourself Wait for someone to want to make you happy Be happy And when you start to cry because you are so happy Do not close your eyes Do not bite your lip Invite the tears to fall Invite yourself to fall again And fall again Do not close your eyes Fall Love Bruise Repeat Do not close your eyes

Hold On You are so much, ok? Hold my hand You have got so much to say I know you think you're unimportant like you're just some boring extra No You are a musicbox with the most beautiful song Your long legs are ballerina's and you dance when you walk You sing when you talk You are the most loved, ok? You are so wonderful You are so much ok? So pretty so brilliant so perfect in every way You have so much left to say Please don't stop singing Your vocal chords have not yet rusted away Contrary to what you may have been taught Everything that you do is important Everything you believe in is magic Hold on ok? Hold my hand You're not done You have an entire heart still left to give An entire #life still left to live Hold on, ok? Whether I'm writing this to her to him to you or to me They, you --we-- are so much You have so much left to say I have so much left to sing to you You are so much Hold on, ok? Hold my hand

Bed From my empty bed I can feel you Warm Breathing Though you're not really here I can actually feel you Your heart beAts so slow You bat your eyes the other way when I try and touch you Your #lifelines have been stretched too thin Please don't say we're over Please don't say this is the end I've been a year trying to memorize you I know it hasn't seemed that way There've been days when it was so dark I couldn't see past my own hands but I've always been with you, even when you had to feel your way around Softly in the dark I reach Teach me how to love you how you need, be everything for you Cut me open and I'll bleed, anything thing for you Just please don't say we're over Please don't say you're through There's nothing i can do to make up for what I've done A hundred dozen roses wouldn't add up to I'm sorry A hundred double I'm sorrys wouldn't add up to you You are so amazing in any light I'd fight forever for you to be happy I'd go to war for you And you know I hate violence Violently gasping for your breath on my neck, I'll wait for you For you to grow back into me and for you to see that I'm not going anywhere I'm laying in my bed and ill be here till you come back And kiss me again Please don't say it's over Please don't say "just friends"

Cartography Your entire body is a map and I follow it completely If I ever get off track I can always find home by finding your lips I can always find them Even in the dark Because you glow I wish that I could prove that to you because I know Sometimes you feel like you're dim You have eyes that can only see beauty in things far away I wish that I could make you feel like you were the first person I ever really knew, which is true and Like you have got me blue in the face, Blowing out candles all over the place Wishing for you Wishing to do what you've done for me You led me home I didn't have to look far So here I am And here you are

WE I've given you my heart I've literally carved it out and handed it to you, said, "It's yours" and sat back down. You held the beating, quivering, steaming thing in your hands for a few minutes, like "Hmm, what should I do now?" If I ever stop giving you reasons to keep holding onto it, mail me West And mail yourself East Because WE could never get lost If I ever stop loving you, knit me a sweater for my future because that will be when hell has frozen over If I ever look at you while you're sleepy in the morning and I split-second compare god's heaven to the way your eyes pinch up, shoot me If I can't love you good enough, leave me Say you're sorry but you have to return me because I couldn't fit The shipping and handling will be very expensive though, Because if right now is forever, then we're already here