Category: To Read
Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
Claude Monet
I Will Write in Words of Fire
by Neil Gaiman
I will write in words of fire.
I will write them on your skin.
I will write about desire.
Write beginnings, write of sin.
You’re the book I love the best,
your skin only holds my truth,
you will be a palimpsest
lines of age rewriting youth.
You will not burn upon the pyre.
Or be buried on the shelf.
You’re my letter to desire:
And you’ll never read yourself
I will trace each word and comma
As the final dusk descends,
You’re my tale of dreams and drama,
Let us find out how it ends.
Diamonds
Life is full of perfect moments, sometimes lasting no longer than a song. These moments are like little gems: tiny and shiny and lovely. The trick, I think, is recognizing these gems and stringing them together into a glowing chain that you can tuck away into a secret pocket, as a reminder that you have been blessed.
Tonight, reading, listening to music, laughing with a kindred spirit, I add another little diamond to my chain, and I remember how lucky I am.