Will I make it back to shore of drift into the unknown? Thought excerpts ...

Thinking, but nonetheless with a mind at ease. Sleep was all too hard to come by, and I woke up thankful I'd made it through another restless night. Hoped the day would be slow to flee before I endure the night again.

Thoughts come, they cannot ruin my contentedness, but intrigue nonetheless. I don't fear my mind and myself like I used to long ago. Now those dark corners are filled with light, and I am happy, I am JOYFUL - I am at peace. Peace for my weary soul, a welcome solace from the turmoil it once dragged itself through.

I don't know why I can't sleep well. I sought to occupy my mind in hopes of drifting off into the unknown. Ironically, this did just the opposite, keeping me awake.

Love is a

beautiful thing, fills me with joy and grants me patience and understanding, compassion and kindness towards those to whom it is directed. Real love is not conditional, it has the power to be enduring and yet never grow old. I embrace it, it envelops me, it fills my heart, my mind, my soul.

Looking back on what perhaps were empty words of [others] all along, broken promises, forgotten dreams never to be picked up again. Do we say our own words only to help us hold on to what's around us, praying they are prophecies that end up true? Do we ever really know what our words will become, what they truly mean?

Tell me, can we?

We all want to think that we are different, that our words hold more meaning than those forgotten ones before them.

Tell me, do they?

You might think it's child's play to believe that our words are different, but I am willing to have faith in them.
It's part of love.
Faith, and hope, and dreams.
We might get hurt, but we might not.
How will you ever know if you don't try?

Hold on to not only your words, but something deeper beneath them. Words are but a reflection of something bigger and greater than us all. All words are empty without the meanings put behind them.

Let your actions truly reflect what you say, let what you say truly reflect what you do, who you are.

I have faith in us all.

I drift into the unknown.