will you wait?
i want to kiss you back
but i'm still trying
to kiss the roots of my own stem
watering this flower with tears
still waiting on her to bloom.
puff puff, no pass
living in the sea of trees
filling my lungs
with sativa
so i can feel at peace.
i'll make it home soon
a mapquest
of stretchmarks
across my belly
i am connecting the dots
until i learn to
love this destination,
all the way home.
june
in a day
you gave me
a story
by night
you gave me
my favorite book.
garden goodbyes
if you leave,
leave tenderly.
wiggle yourself
out of these roots.
don't say goodbye to
my flowers,
they have already
lost enough petals.
this is my home
when they say you feel like home,
smile, welcome them
into your garden of youth,
but if they start plucking
your petals off
tell them it is time
they plant their own garden
someplace else.
magic
when you find someone,
who can love you
like you love you,
thank the universe,
for true love is
sensational.
fall
i wonder
how i can be
both happy and
absolutely petrified
to fall in love.
afternoon showers
i watched the rain.
admired how quickly
i saw the plants
smile with green.
i wondered what
i would look like
if i watered myself
in what i need
to grow.
compliment or insult?
i remember the boy
who told me
"wow, you look great,
you used to not have a neck"
his words sliced through my throat
like mirror glass
i could not let out a cry
but now i will
let out a roar
that will shake the cruelty
out of his bones.
on&on
the sun peeks through
my window blinds.
the birds hum
their offerings
the wind brushes
weight off my shoulders
in between puffs of tree.
Erykah Badu
vibrates my solar plexus,
mornings like this
remind me why
i am alive,
there is work to contrive.
there is only one you
you are universal stardust
the universe needed you on this planet
isn't that enough?
enough for you to keep spreading your light,
thru mother natures fortress.
