Do you know?
You can change the world.
Not everyone’s world, and not forever
but each day you can change mine
and prior to you,
life was a shallow river
flowing in one direction and
predetermined with every sunrise
but now
I’m an ocean empire
blessed to have a blazing sun
to reach arms across the horizon and
lift away the dark
You can change the world
and it only will cost you minutes together
but it pays well with memories that
play with your hair,
smile and trace your hand
before dancing lightly away
into the august wind
You can change the world
Because happiness now dwells on the back of my lids
where there used to be blackness
because I now realize if I were to
shut my eyes,
stand unstable on the
edge of the world, and
jump

I’d land in your expecting arms