Locked, originally uploaded by byrd..

"Inside all of us is everything we've ever seen, everything we've ever done, and everyone we've ever loved."

Beauty Withers, originally uploaded by byrd..

"We're pretentious art figures, blowing smoke out of the window. The breeze much cooler than this time, last year... But oh how it warms my soul. This house isn't warm but I fell into the bed like it was; We fell onto each other in a ghost like fashion - Wrapping ourselves as one. I left the liquor bottle beside the mattress and when we woke from our coma not a drop was spilled. That's how it always is, you know. You wake up with the bottle half full, or half empty. It was always half full with you; it always will be. The oxygen I need to breath; my blood in your veins. This is the way it was meant to turn out -- Not quite certain but hitting the pedal full throttle downtown, dodging cars to get there fast. Baby, we got there fast. We're here with a permanent spot in each other's hearts and if the whiskey isn't keeping me warm in this house too cold for polar bears, then your flawless frame will. And I know from the second that football flew through the air, when you wasted 2 packs of matches lighting all my cigarettes, and the golf ball that was shot into the hole and the time afterwards spent throwing garbage and bottles at street signs, to the night where it all pieced itself together in a perfect fashion months ago.. That every last bit of it was meant to happen. Baby, this is just a puzzle piece in the plan." - Written May 2007.

Almost three years later and I still get that jolt of electricity when you touch my skin. Feathers are floating all around like a dream and I'm wrapped in this cashmere state of mind.