strength

“How do you know someone is for you? They bring peace you haven’t found anywhere else. They support your effort. They water your growth.”

this body found me  and i said please reform yourself from clay make pretty from what is un/pretty make wisp from thick, make beauty in the age of the dissolving   my body looked up and said we will make you sturdy  you will survive and when the time comes, when you are no longer cursing bones for their width or muscles for their  existence    you’ll say god bless the fat on my hips; hills i did not die on

I don’t think people love me. They love versions of me I have spun for them, versions of me they have construed in their minds. The easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love.