To my Ariana

To my best friend in the world, to commemorate our matching tattoos-

I will be your sequoia in the sky 

And when winter strips you bare

I will share with you the saffron buds of my branches

Repeat after me:

WE WILL LIVE

And when they tell us the sky is the limit

We will laugh and politely decline 

Because the sky is never the limit for a couple of trees like you and me 

Cuz we're headed to the galaxy 

Bags packed at the door

Life is a journey

And I am your shotgun every time 

Holding the map

Tracing over mountain ranges with my fingertips like I'm reading the earth in brail 

And it's whispering 

"Grow"

--never...stop growing

Ashen aspen you are first to bloom in spring 

And I will always follow you skyward