Tideland

Feb. 20, 2007

There are no strangers

there are only people we don't know yet,

or don't know anymore.
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she met a boy today
that she has known all her life
that may not be possible
but it's true

she can't draw a map for you
or take you back
through their native hands
but

she learned something today
that i could never teach her
she learned that she can
love someone
all her life
in an hour
and that life provides us
with a memory
of places we've never been
and may never go again

for
some people
earn a place in our past
without being there
things like that don't really happen
but they happen
all
the
time