Just me.

1. She looks into your eyes and says, “No one has ever made me feel quite the way you do.” From across the ordering counter you respond, “Thanks. I’ll have a venti machiatto, extra shot please.”

2. While leaving the movie theater you hear someone shout, “150 yards Goddamnit! 150 yards!” To your surprise she screams back, “Inadvertent contact, Bill! Inadvertent!”

3. Before you’re even home from your first date, she’s left four voice mails, sent two text messages and called your best friend to ask where you’re at.

4. When she smiles there’s always lipstick on her teeth.

5. Ten minutes after sex she’s picking out baby names.

6. The first time you meet her parents, you overhear her Dad mutter, “Poor bastard.”

7. On your first date she tells her seven year old to call you Dad.

8. She threatens to beat your 66 year old secretary’s ass because she smiled at you.

9. She starts way too many sentences with, “My P.O. says…”

10. She has twelve tattoos, eleven of them covering up old boyfriends’ names…poorly.

11. Her bathroom reading materials include the books ‘Schizophrenia and You: a Biblical Solution’ and ‘Women Who Beat the Men Who Love Them’.

Her shoulders back

She walks with grace

The brightest smile

Upon her face

But what’s beneath

That perfect pride

What insane fear

Does she hide

She laughs aloud

And all that hear

Are enchanted by

The sound so clear

But what’s behind

Her show of strength

And does she think

She’ll go the length

I know the truth

I’ve seen her heart

When all defense

Has broke apart

She trudges through

A life made rough

Each time she’s told

Not good enough

Been beaten down

By hateful words

For years of life

That’s all she’s heard

But she has power

She may command

A force she’ll weld

By gentle hand

And she will rise

To show her worth

And make her mark

Upon this earth