i want to savor life
i want to be madly obsessed with its beautiful monotony
to fall in love with everyone I meet
to cherish the strangeness of a stranger
i want to see the colors
colors that are there for those who have the eyes to see them
i want joy
i want to swim in the cold crash of the ocean
and taste the salt and the sand in my teeth
i want to be alive
every moment
every second
aware of the gift that is given me
every time the sun climbs the eastern horizon
i want life
in all its fullness
in all its brilliance, and sadness, and thickness, and sweetness, and pain