Always Looking Up
written by: Hopeless Optimist
Have you ever just stopped yourself before
falling?
The forward momentum halting short of
an eclipse.
Your eyes – filled up with light,
as the moon chases the sun into the darkness.
As I leaned heart-forward into the idea of you and you slipped farther because I wanted a love that was bigger than the weekend.
Wrecked and tumbling—dizzy. spinning—and slow like speeding, and all I can think about is how you could have held time and space and that I would have fallen hard. the endless hope of the little girl under the covers and dreaming with a dangerous optimism—
Always looking up!
I am a hopeless dreamer and optimist working on changing the world and my own real life too. I fell in love with an idea and now I plan to chase it like my life depends on it. In fact. I’d like to write a poem a day until we find our way back.
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- Always Looking Up - July 20, 2026
