All the Broken Pieces

Sometimes the words people don't say are as powerful as the ones they do.

Maybe love is like a monsoon rain. When it rains really hard and heavy, it seems like it will never end and we'll swim in mud forever. But then the wind shifts and the earth grows dry and cracked. Every gurgle and ooze tiptoes away and we're left wishing and waiting for rain again. Maybe love is like that. Maybe the wind shifts and love just tiptoes away.

Words are messy, but sometimes, words are all you've got to show what matters most.

Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.

Pretendin'. I'm still pretendin'. For the rest of my life, I'll be pretendin'. How ya doing? they ask, and I say, Okay, man, even though I'm not. I'm not okay and I'm never gonna be okay again. I just don't get it, how they don't see my insides hangin' out, when it's all I can do to put these feelings into words because words don't mean a thing. —Joe

We have found you and we love you. You will never be alone. I will sing to you of morning, I will stay until it's light. I will sing to you of laughter on the other side of night.

There is darkness on the water. There is darkness on the land. There is darkness all around us, but I will hold your hand. You are safe, my precious child. You are safe now, you are home. We have found you and we love you. You will never be alone.

Some cancers are sneaky. They're silent and invisible. They creep up on you and invade so deep on the inside that no one on the outside even knows the cancer's there until it's too late.