i want

to travel

to places unknown to my eyes,

where my brain is a map,

and i become lost in pavement.




i want

to live

in towns where my name is a mystery,

where i am so truly alone,

that i forget my name too.




i want

to know

people with story-filled paths,

those whose faces carry scars

of moments we long to forget.




i want

to see

beauty

in the smile of a man with no teeth,

in the strength of a broken woman,

in the cold loneliness surrounding a stranger.




i want

to experience

love, when it is nothing more than a fleeting fallacy

time, when it passes silently without distortion

life, when it is in its most vulnerable form.