Selections from Pillow Thoughts

I think that if you let me,
I'd treat you like the sky.
I'd join up all your insecurities,
bundle all your flaws
into a new constellation,
and search for it endlessly.
I know you don't see yourself
the way I you
and you still argue
when I call you beautiful.
But all the things you can't stand
about yourself
are all the things I can't
go a day without.
I think if you let me,
I'd build an observatory
just to show you
that all the stars in the universe
will never shine as brightly
as you.

~ Courtney Peppernell