Poetry: Love
whispering love into my head,
holding out for beautiful feelings,
legs swift, walk in power,
like the bamboo, refusing to die.
I have seen,
what love can do,
love so freeing she teaches you to pour all your love inside you,
the world isn't for people like you, she said
but you are here so occupy every space you are in,
never shrink, she said again.
I have seen my little life blossom,
when tended to,
I have also learned to tend to myself because I might be alone sometimes,
I have seen love let me rest,
she taught me, that rock bottom just means I need to rest and come back home, home is me.
Love, a woman, for only a woman can be so freeing and powerful,
Love held me,
Love kissed me,
Love never left,
I hold on to her, she's my life, she's everything that makes me live.
Love,
She's the moon smiling at me every night when I watch it.
she's my ADHD brain wanting to die yet understanding the desire to live.
Love,
She teaches me shamelessness,
she teaches me to keep my fire burning, it doesn't have to be a furnace, but keep it on she says,
it'll be your warmth on cold nights,
and when you fight the powers that be,
It'll be your tool, make it a conflagration and burn the systems to the ground.
