ReAsOnS WhY YoU ArE sO GrEaT:
1. your curly hair (even though you hate it)
2. your smile
3. interesting spellings
4. all the crossword puzzles
5. how great you are to hug
6. your guitar playing
7. you're a great kisser
8. your converse
9. you play along with all my little games
10. you have amazing eyes
11. you can play the guitar
12. how you put your head down and rest it on my leg
13. how you cover your face up with your hands
14. biting
15. how you wear that 88.1 button on your shirt
16. we are so alike
17. all the little things
18. how you're so... you....
I could keep going on.....but I'll stop because you're 18...
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I wrote you a song
sprawled over several sheets of torn notebook paper
and post it notes ragged along the edges
worn through with ink
I went through all the hangman games,
drawings, and notes,
and the t.v. guide
I should have taken from the hotel room
I left it laying on the dresser
all our notes open to anyone searching for late night t.v.
It all came down to bedsheets
and alarms,
silent glances, secret smiles
I have mental pictures of your hands,
worn with lines
sketched in your palms
criscrossing, spiraling
And your eyes
hazel in places
sometimes laced with flecks of gold
The ride in the car was too short
the bed too hot for comfort
but somehow inside it all -
the cheesy movies and mosquitos,
trumpets and wedding bells
we got back to 221
and found each other in the dark
happy birthday wonderful.
