“Good night stunner
Add these words to
our homemade barricade
Fortify
How much you matter
How much you are loved
Pile these words so high
That you can survive
The slings and arrows
of outrageous misfortune
Never deaf to the world's cries
But safe inside yourself,
Alive
Rest, stunner.”
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