A dream about you.

I was where you once were,
And I needed to tell you.

I took the key to your apartment and opened your front door. I walked into your bedroom, only to find you asleep. Only you and a bed - everything else had been moved to your new city. I looked at your sleeping face. You were peaceful.

I ran my finger down the slope of your jaw. You awoke, smiling. I could tell you were happy to see me but thought you were dreaming. I kissed your soft, dry lips.

"I'm sorry," I said.

"It's okay. I leave tomorrow. She's waiting for me there," you replied.

"I know what I did to you. I was there. I saw where you lived. I want to go back with you and I want to tell you something."

"There's nothing left. What could you have to say?"

You vanished before I could say, "I still love you."

Göteborg.

And of course, I thought of you.

Zen.

Self control.

Man cannot control himself unless he accepts himself. In other words, before he can change his course of action he must first be sincere, going with and not against his nature, even when the immediate trend of his nature is toward evil, toward a fall.

To maintain control we have to learn new reactions, just as in the art of judo, one must learn not to resist or an attack but to control it by swinging with it.

- Alan Watts

When we are oppressed by circumstances and feel controlled by the outer world, we forget that our very own consciousness is bringing that world into being.

- Alan Watts

"Life is not a problem to be solved
But rather a mystery to be lived"

Copenhagen.

I thought about you a lot in Copenhagen.

Denmark.

Friends at the lake.

this time tomorrow
i will be flying over the ocean.

23.

twenty three images for my twenty-third birthday.

clear.

you're clear water.

inside.

something inside me 

knows the something inside of you.

i had a bad day and i just wanted to be near 

you.

i liked the tattoo on your arm.

it gave me hope.

vérité.

que sera, sera.

oh hi.

New.

I don't need to know the new music you like, or the new things that make you tick. I don't need to know your new favorite food or your feelings on the latest news. I don't need to know your latest traits to love you.

I love you for who you are,

And always will be.

be.

"be the type of person you'd like to meet."

unconditional.

loving someone unconditionally 

is loving them regardless of circumstance.

it means wanting their happiness, 

whether or not you're in their life.

it is loving them

despite their mistakes and flaws.

loving them for who they are,

not who anyone else wants them to be.

to love unconditionally is to love selflessly.

an unconditional love

is what i feel for you.

--

It ain't over

til it's over.

ears.

locks of hair

curl around your ears.

i've gone mad.

i swear i've seen that 

somewhere before

when light shone

through windows 

and hallways-

when i looked up,

you were all i could see.

and now

when i sleep

i dream of locks

curling around ears.

ride.

i've been trying too hard

with one pretty song.

stumble.

i wish i didn't have to stumble across photos of you-

but it's hardly stumbling when you're searching.

---

summer&flowers.