Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart...

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

My favorite six letter word is
always
because it promises
so much.

My favorite five letter word is
never
because it insists on contradicting
the promise.

My favorite four letter word is
once
because it says it
happened then.

My favorite three letter word is
yes
because I’m just now learning
to say it
to my heart.

My favorite two letter word is
if
because it makes
all things possible
like this:

If not always
If not never
Then once.

Yes.

Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

I wanted his death so savagely that the need for it rang in my ears and clouded my sight and was a flavor on my tongue.