Day 12

For my 2013 Louder Than A Bomb team. You are my life and my love and my light. Thank you for staying with me.

I have never felt so beautiful about a poem.

Today, my heart is in all the right places, spinning swiftly around my ribcage and fluttering into my palms,

into my poem. I 

have never felt so beautiful.

Not even when my best friend kisses me on the forehead

and calls me “amazing”, 

not even when she is teaching me how to breathe again, 

I will never feel the beauty of recovery, 

the wonder of discovery so much 

as when I am watching her from one side of a microphone.

I will let myself feel this kind of beautiful

every day.