Home Body

oh but the pussy is brave
lest we forget
how much pain
the pussy can take
how much pleasure it delivers
unto itself and others
remember
how it spit you out
without a flinch
now here you are
using the word pussy
like an insult
when you’re not even
strong enough to be one

i dive into the well of my body
and end up in another world
everything i need
already exists in me
there’s no need
to look anywhere else

- home

don’t sleep on
the doormat of your potential
waiting for things to happen
when you could be
the thing that happens

get out of your own way
get out of your own way
get out of your own way

if you want to be creative
you need to learn how to
do stuff that has no purpose
art isn’t made by
working all the time
first you’ve got to
go out and live

- the art will come

if you tried
and didn’t end up
where you wanted to go
that’s still progress

no one is qualified to decide your worth
you wake up and live your life every day
yours is the only opinion of you
that matters

happiness grew old
waiting for me
and i grew old
searching for happiness
in places it did not live

we’ve ruined
our only home for
convenience and profit
neither of which will be
useful once the earth
can’t breathe

the land sprawled its limbs
and said put your feet up
the trees said we will give you life
the air said breathe me in
the earth said
take care of what takes care of you
and we turned our backs on all of them

- betrayal

i fear that
my best years are behind me
and nothing beyond this point will add up

my body is so hot from wanting you
i’m spilling by the time we take our clothes off
i want the kind of love that
transcends me
into another realm
i want you so deep
we enter the spirit world
go from being gentle to rough
i want eye contact
spread my legs to
opposite ends of the room
and look with your fingers
i want my soul to be touched
by the tip of yours
i want to come
out of this room
different people

- can you do that

i’m careful about
who i spend my energy on

- i know my worth

i’m not going to pretend
to be less intelligent than i am
so a man can feel
more comfortable around me
the one i deserve
will see my greatness and
want to lift it higher

in a world that doesn’t consider
my body to be mine
self-pleasure is an act
of self-preservation
when i’m feeling disconnected
i connect with my center
touch by touch
i drop back into myself
at the orgasm

why do i hurt the ones
who want to lift me up and
worship the ones who crush me

- what made me like this

if someone doesn’t have a heart
you can’t go around
offering them yours

don’t ask me why i didn’t leave
he made my world so small
i couldn’t see the exit

- i’m surprised i got out at all

i want a parade
i want music
i want confetti
i want a marching band
for the ones surviving in silence
i want a standing ovation
for every person who
wakes up and moves toward the sun
when there is a shadow
pulling them back on the inside

i am not a victim of my life
what i went through
pulled a warrior out of me
and it is my greatest honor to be her