9/30 - Simile for Love

I love you like flowers love sunshine
and like the desert loves heat.
I love like back massages when I'm tired too
and telling you when you have food in your teeth.

I love you like joint showers
and letting you stand under the water
while my teeth chatter against your bare chest.
I love you like that time it only last five minutes
but that short time was the best.

I love you like chocolate cake and fresh-baked bread.
I love you like half-priced ink.
And get this: I love you MORE than the color pink...

I love you like my next breath
and the sound of rain when there's nothing else to do.
I love you like twenty-one years
and all the trouble I can get into.

I love you like Jesus loved sinners,
Like Gandhi loved peace,
Like Buddha loved happiness.
I love you like the homeless love their next meal,
Like oxygen loves trees,
Like grass loves dew.
I love you more than this poem can express
and I don't even know you.

5/30 - When the Sun's Out

Everything hurts less when the sun's out.
Nature heals.
Grass feels softer than carpet.
Warm wind is better than finger tips in your hair.
Clouds look prettier than marshmallows taste.
When the ancestors look down on us from the stars, the things they whisper are sweeter even than the jokes of best friends.
Daisy petals make better decisions.
Forget-me-nots make lovelier hats.
Running water soothes longer than even jazz music.
Butterflies are better listeners than people.
Even mosquitoes just remind us to keep fighting.
Gentle, 90-degree perspiration feels fresher than tubwater steam
and real lavender smells better than Bath and Body works.

When the sun's out, smiles always balance the hurts.