Thank you

Thank you for anti depressants
Thank you for Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath
Thank you for red wine
Thank you for Indian food and Pad Thai
Thank you for making love, and kissing my spine
Thank you for the times when mommy and daddy are so kind
Thank you for Buddhism, and Christianity
Thank you for Socrates and his witty dialogues
Thank you for cigarettes when I'm happy, sad, lonely, angry, and bored
Thank you for showing me the importance of a dollar
Thank you for the Occupy movement
Thank you for the Montreal Canadiens. Even though they keep getting too many men penalties, and not trying
Thank you for Leonard Cohen and Closing Time
Thank you for my ex boyfriend Sean Flanagan who taught me a lot about film
Thank you for Bill MacGillivray and his talent for teaching the most important lessons
Thank you for stained glass windows
Thank you for Orange juice
Thank you for sapphires and the word 'organic'
Thank you for helping me understand aesthetics
Thank you for my body
Thank you for all my injuries and scars
Thank you for my pain tolerance
Thank you for my sisters who are some of the greatest girls/women in the entire world
Thank you for letting me have hundreds of friends and not a friend in the world
Thank you for the people who harassed me, threatened me, and hurt me
Thank you for fire and the way it soothes me
Thank you for hot showers and for cold showers
Thank you for Doctor Littlejohn and his brilliant methods
Thank you for letting me have this experience
Thank you for dressing how I want and not caring
Thank you for Europe and the chance of going someday
Thank you for the economic crisis
Thank you for all my regrets and the guilt they caused me
Thank you for letting me lose my friends and learn to move on
Thank you for sweaters, boots, peeing, and heartbreak
Thank you for all the horrible people in the world for having so much character
Thank you for vision and for blindness
Thank you for blood, jumping, trains, and the river in front of my house
Thank you for God and how I fear him
Thank you.