Kelly Grace Thomas

I Want To Stop Wasting Time Thinking About Wasted Time

Always in such a rush to hurry up and live.

Scribble joy off my To-Do list. How American

to want it all and still say more. Don’t I have

every ounce I thirsted for: quiet water, endless

ink, a little love on both sides of the bed.

I want to be less scared and more

salt water. To taste the wind

and never beg it to stay.

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