Before You

Before You



Before you

I traveled roads unknown

just to see where they would lead.

There was no plan,

only a search for happiness.



Rivers, mountains, or city streets

the call was the same.

And each journey left me

longing for more.



Before you

I could not name

what was missing from my life.

How could I miss something

I had never known?



There was a joy in my freedom,

but also a sadness.

A comfort in the arms of others

that always ended with emptiness.



But now I know

what I had been missing.

I understand why I felt so incomplete.

And each road I travel

leads me back home to you.





-Rishell Graves

January 3, 2012