Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude.Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the one to be worshiped is you.

~ Taylor Patton

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Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.

~ Taylor Patton

Taylor Patton Cautious Fear Home Love Sensible Still

If you wake with a change of direction, deciding you hate who you've been,Remember, I loved you every yesterday as I will continue to love you then.Whomever person you become I shall worship and whatever path you pave I will follow,Because I loved you every yesterday and I will love you every tomorrow.

~ Taylor Patton

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Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.

~ Taylor Patton

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How lucky I am to lose sleep over such a work of art.

~ Taylor Patton

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In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on.

~ Taylor Patton

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To greet each day ossified,Like fossil remains forgotten beneath the feet of something more lively.

~ Taylor Patton

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And there you sit.My eyes burning a hole on the side of your face while the stars are being captured in your eyes from the prolonged, there's-plenty-of-time, full attention you're giving each one.And there you sit.And I'm wishing I could give you every ounce of what you give the stars.

~ Taylor Patton

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Sometimes my helpless blood runs numb and, if only for a second, I forget how frail bones can be.

~ Taylor Patton

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Dissociated, I follow this body in its reckless haste.

~ Taylor Patton

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Leave the hush to those who love like apes because together, you and I make vulgar sounds like a fervent sojourn in paradise.

~ Taylor Patton

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Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand.

~ Taylor Patton

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I am foolish in the way distance makes me feel partial.

~ Taylor Patton

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Even lungs that are gasping are lungs that are trying.

~ Taylor Patton

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3 A.M. isn't a time for sleep when the silhouette of you is breathing next to me.

~ Taylor Patton

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Nostalgia dies in the pit of my throat from lack of exercise and I buried the word six feet under the pronunciation of hopeful tomorrows.

~ Taylor Patton

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Forsake it in the morning. Do not ring it the next day.Make no commitment to comfort.

~ Taylor Patton

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Forgive me for not loving how you deserve.With weak knees that in their grand gesture can only collapse instead of bow.

~ Taylor Patton

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