 Hello, everybody. Thank you so much for having me over. This poem is part of the writing project that I participated in as part of the invitation from Graham, and it is called What I Dreamed of. I dream with my eyes open. I'm awake, sometimes with them closed. Presence is found somewhere between what was and where I'd like to go. There are millions of stars blinking like curious eyelids within the ceiling above me. And although night here, outside, it isn't even dark. I dream with my eyes open that someday, that soon, I will build a world beyond magic. I tell myself daily, build it, and they will come. Not sure yet who all I will invite. All of you, maybe. All of you right here with me. Because I want kindness to guide us. I want peace to unite us, but somehow, without the presence of storm, we all seem to get a bit bored. So look at that war that we construct. Look at our frail little bodies caught in the net of it all. Look at us bow to the fear of not having another day to love someone and watch that fear helping us gravitate towards each other. I write love poems. I breathe in chaos. It burns like a salt gulp of ocean water. I exhale sorrow. There is not a soul that's not on fire out there, and it makes me sick to know that conflict is the cost of loving and being loved. It makes me spit at the idea of unconditional. And there's no cause without consequence. There's no reaction without the action portion. All that there is, all that there can ever be is stillness. But we live in a world that is not still, that dances around itself, spins around an imaginary axis. So tell me that you don't spin from one harm to another. Tell me that you don't wish to be held spellbound while you move restless like that. Tell me this. Why be so restless? Why be so afraid to be here under this grand microscope? Why do you have to hide behind those pretty, pretty eyes? What do you have to lose by dancing shamelessly beneath this starry blue skies? Have you ever considered that maybe this world was built by the fearless gods that live within both you and I? Thank you.