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Yes. yes i do. have the right to be this lush and neverending.

a poem can eat a person whole. for years.

The truth is
you were born for you.
you were wanted by you.
you came for you.
you are here for you.
your existence is yours.
yes.

Never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,
you are invisible.

There is a god in writing.
a soft. roaring. unconditional.
home of a god.
who prays to me.

I am a soft revolution. the one whose hair is bleeding.

Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.

she was a beautiful place to bare my legs.

i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.

my mother gave me islam.

my father gave me the god of absence.

and here i am.

a religion made of myself.

it was only and ever love.

poetry.
is the fire leaving my body.

I don't pay attention to the
world Ending.
It has ended for me
many Times
and began again in the morning.

I am so full of my tongue you would think speaking is easy. but it is not.

we are never our own.
we must change this fact.

- acceptance

My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.

apologize to your body.
maybe,
that's where the healing
begins.

When I am afraid to speak is when I speak.
That is when it is most important.

i have lost millions and millions
of words to fear.
tell me that is not violence.

- the deaths

can you be a daughter.
if you have no
mother language."
- african american iii

knowing your power
is what creates
humility.
not know your power
is what creates
insecurity.

there is no healthier drug than creativity.

I love myself.'
the
quietest.
simplest.
most
powerful.
revolution.
ever.

i am a brutally soft woman.

We are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.

Sometimes the night wakes in the middle of me. and i can do nothing but become the moon.

sometimes i smell my parents on my words. and i weep.

I want to keep our body above water. you want to make us a fish. - fish

trust your work.

But this was never a relationship. i have no idea who you are.

your skin smells like light. i think you are the moon.

You
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you

Poetry alters my dna. every poem is a different life. every poem brings me closer to myself. and breaks open a new future inside of me.

I am a black wave in a white sea. always seen and unseen.

the cure for apathy is memory.

you see how your body is beginning to slow glow with stars. you are remembering. you are mine. you have never been anything else.

What we hide and do not say turns into another mouth that only we know.

i like myself. when i am myself.

It is being honest
about
my pain
that
makes me invincible.

all the women. in me. are tired.

I knew you
before
i met you.
i've known you my whole life.

eyes that commit. that is what I am looking for.

Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind
Nayyirah Waheed

In your arrogance you presume that i want your skinny language. that my mouth is building a room for it in the back of my throat. it is not.

Even if you are a small forest surviving off of moon alone, your light is extraordinary.

Sometimes
the beauty of my people
is
so
thick and intricate.
i spend days
trying
to undo my eyes
so
i can sleep.

go.
enjoy.
leave.
it was all about you, anyway.

Does he not remember he is half woman.

will never know my skin. wild with everything and nothing but them. i sang into their blood. each and every one of them have my voices in their bones.

The thing you are most
afraid to write
Write that.

They take no from our first breath. go back and return it to your mouth. your heart. your light.

i am a silk field of vulnerability.

i know, she is the love you are, the land you are made of, and she is hemorrhaging. war is eating her heart.

Listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you.

she asked 'you are in love what does love look like' to which i replied 'like everything i've ever lost come back to me.

A lie
is
simply a lie.
it draws its strength from belief.
stop believing
in
what hurts you.
- power

If we must
both
be right.
we will
lose
each other.

I loved you
because
it was easier
than
loving myself.

i am such a sensitive summer thing.

length of our love. she was your eyes the day i met you. remember, you and i.

Your soul stained my shoulders. my whole life smells like you. this will take time. undoing you from my blood.

You are a story. do not become a word. one word. because you want to be loved. love does not ask you to be nothing for something.

I will tell you, my daughter of your worth not your beauty every day.

You are a flood in my hands.

Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire.

I believe that everyone in the world.
has
one poem.
that is their soulmate.

Sometimes i want to say it. and there is nothing in english. that will say it.

Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish.

Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.

i cannot see you anymore. your smile. your legs. your heat. is lonely. the honey, grandmother said, is for your blood. it is to bring you back.

the poem.
the one that is running through
your life.
pay attention.
to that poem.

as a woman i know the difference between appreciation and teeth. what really hurts is that as a girl i had to know the same thing.

i have always been the woman of my dreams.

you are not a mistake. you are too many exquisite details to be a mistake.

No'
might make them angry
but
it will make
you
free.

the hard season will split you through. do not worry. you will bleed water.

There have been so many times
i have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious.

I will be lost and unlost, over
and over again, relax love. You
were meant to be this glorious.
Epic. Story.

She was flower salt in my heart, and she hurt beautifully.

leaving. doesn't mean that you've left.

And i heard her say, 'you
are afraid of love. but
love is not afraid of you.

when,' is not something you ask someone when the bodies of their aunt. uncle. friends. first love. cannot be found.

Whether with a lover or none. i reek of love. i stink of love.

there is you and you.
this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship.

I will always be a translation.

Would
you still want to travel to
that
country
if
you could not take a camera with you.
-a question of appropriation

If
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.

water clings to my wrists. it has been my fragrance since birth.

Be easy. take your time. you are coming home. to yourself. - the becoming

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

i will. and this will end. - closure | dankyes

Grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.

Can we speak in flowers.
it will be easier for me to understand.

you and the poems have a lot to talk about.