Love & Things
By Xavier Echon
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narrative of resilience, courage, and beauty. These poems are Xavier's legacy, the words he left
behind sketch the world that he saw; a passionate, beautiful life where socks fall in love with
chopsticks and hearts break like birthday piñatas.
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Love & Things - Xavier Echon
Copyright 2021 by Rosalie Celestino Echon
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, distribute, and adapt any part of the work without written permission from the publisher.
Published by BookBaby
Manufactured in the United States of America
Cover Design: Josh Lau
Print ISBN: 978-1-66784-646-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-66784-647-7
Contents
I
Pieces of Things
Instead
Rendezvous
Queen of Hearts
Moonlight
On the Topic of Death: Finding Life
Dear Basketball
Snowfall
Simplicity
To Whom It May Apply
Just In Case
Sunlight
Heaven Brew
Eight Things I Learned from Having Cancer
Homebound
Awhile
Wondering
II
Balloons
To The Pencil: A Love Letter from a Classroom Desk
To The Classroom Desk: A Love Letter from a Pencil
To The Desk: A Love Letter from a Pencil #2
Instinct
To A Steering Wheel: A Love Letter from a Pillow
To A Staple: A Love Letter from a Paperclip
To a Chopstick: A Love Letter from a Sock
To A Sunflower: A Love Letter from a Picture Frame
To A Newspaper: A Love Letter from a Rubber Band
Still
To A Sail: A Love Letter from a Skipping Stone
To A Skipping Stone: A Love Letter from a Sail
To The Wind: A Love Letter from the Ocean
To A Telescope: A Love Letter from a Microscope
To A Reflection: A Love Letter from a Mirror
To A Magnifying Glass: A Love Letter from a Violin
III
Petals
Bryophyta
Refill
Honeymoon
Eclipse
Hammers
Washing Machine
Memories
Midnight on Main Street
Before We Know It
To Death
A Letter from Flight 13
IV
Raindrops
The Crossroad
Fireflies
V
Thank you
FXCK CANCER
VI
The Eulogy
Being Forever Resilient
Testimonials
Love and Things is a love letter to the world. A compilation of spoken words transcribed and compiled from the left behind works of Xavier Echon, a boy who lived his life with a curious eye and generous heart. Love and Things teaches us to find love in the simplest of ways and weaves a narrative of resilience, courage, and beauty. These poems are Xavier’s legacy, the words he left behind sketch the world that he saw; a passionate, beautiful life where socks fall in love with chopsticks and hearts break like birthday piñatas.
I Really Do This…
I
Pieces of Things
After my heart was broken like a
birthday piñata,
I stared at its contents,
surprised that there was so much,
for only one person.
Just pieces of
bubblegum compliments
that somehow lost its flavor,
chocolate-covered promises
that only melted in the heat
of things,
cherry-flavored I love you’s
that will never be unwrapped
and enjoyed,
just pieces of things
I wanted you to save
for later.
Instead
So last night I had a dream, and in this dream my mind
took us back to when I met you and you met me for
the first time.
We relived past lives, yet each step backwards through
time began feeling like billions of years.
And I forgot everything that I wanted to tell you to the
point where I was too nervous to even introduce myself
to you.
See, we were both stars.
Billions of years ago when the universe was still young.
We formed the same constellations and together we
brightened the sky.
But you were always miles away from me.
So, I whispered messages on stardust, and I sent them
to you.
But by the time they got there, I died.
And then I was resurrected as a Greek who lived in Athens.
And you were a goddess who lived on Mount Olympus.
And every day I walked to the foot of the mountain hoping
you’d look down from the Pantheon, and noticed that the
constellations in my veins matched yours.
But I was just a mortal.
And I died worshiping a marble statue of you that barely
captured fractions of your beauty, and then I opened
my eyes, and I was Leonardo De Vinci, and you were
Mona Lisa.
And I thought maybe, just maybe, if I painted the comets
in your smile perfect enough, you’d remember me.
But when I finished my painting, you never came back.
And I died without ever seeing you again.
And then I came back again as a Hummingbird.
And every day I’d visit you while you watered your garden.
I would sing you songs sweeter than any orchestra could
ever play for you.
And I thought finally, you’d recognize me.
But one day, you moved away.
And the loneliness killed me.
And when I awoke, I was a piece of chalk.
And you were an eraser.
We were both owned by Albert Einstein.
I would write equations on the board.
You would fix all my mistakes.
We completed each other.
But when he died, so did we.
But I never gave up.
And I kept coming back to look for you.
I wore a name tag everywhere I went.
Thinking to myself maybe, just maybe, you were one
of the strangers that I passed by every day.
And seeing my name will help you to remember.
I drew arrows on pieces of cardboard that I would
hammer onto telephone poles.
They would point in the direction of my house.
And I prayed once, just once you’d follow them like
breadcrumbs and we’d find each other again.
I wrote hundreds of letters that I would put into these
glass bottles.
I would cast them out to random directions of the sea.
Hoping just once, just once, one would float to your feet
while you walked on the beach continents away.
And you’d read it and write me back.
But each time you never did, and I died.
Man, I died without ever finding you.
But even worse, I died right before
I got a chance to tell you.
It took me a billion years to say.
That’s why today.
Maybe I’ll hug you just a little too tight.
Or make it awkward if I stare at the stars in your
eyes for too long.
But it’s only because I’m scared.
That one day I’m going to lose you.
And I’m going to have to find you all over again.
And let’s be honest,
I do not want to spend another billion
years looking for you. I want to spend them with you,
Instead.
Rendezvous
I wonder
if the dream versions
of ourselves
still meet up in our dreams
every so often.
A subconscious rendezvous,
when both our beings
momentarily stop
shaping lives separate
from one another
to live out the promises
we failed to keep.
Queen of Hearts
So, one night I decided that I was going to write you
the perfect love poem.
A poem so incredibly crafted that you’d understand
just how much you mean to me.
The only problem though, is once I start to write about love,
It never seems to fully grasp everything I want it to mean.
I guess it just goes to show that love is more
than just words on a page, but nonetheless,
I still wanted to write you the perfect love poem.
Look, I’ll be honest with you.
Love and I never really saw