you are your own manic pixie dream girl

by Maggie Munday O

sunrise by sunrise, teaching yourself

to swoon at the thought of a new day.

all that shimmering possibility laid

out before you like a yellow brick road.

it's like you’ve got rose colored contact

lenses and all you see is the lovely

in all of it. there you go again! turning your utterly

average world into something magical,

following yourself into the sunset.

you don’t need anyone, you are teaching yourself

to fall in love with this life.