The Future Is Female 💕

An honest conversation opening.

But really, have you seen it lately?

Do you still drive to the middle of nowhere with your telescope? Do you still count shooting stars like blessings?

It's been a long while — but all my friends found better versions of me, because I prefer to dream and fill journals with places and people that don't exist.

"Does the moon look different from where you are?"

It's never the same, just like relationships.

Hey. I am somebody, who has a birth certificate defining me as a 17-year-old. I hide cigarettes in my locker, I drink when I can and I have had affairs.

Is that enough for you to judge me?

I know men and women

who are 30 years and above

and they fail to understand

what it’s like

to cry over a piece of art

to fall in love for five seconds

to dance in the rain

with a cigarette in between my lips

to fucking live.

I listen to the same songs

the same set of five

every single night

they make me higher

than any sort of weed

or hash

ever could.

Yes, I will make typos tonight

it’s okay.

My inhibitions have evaporated

and in this moment

this very moment

no matter where you are

or in what state

if you’re reading this

know that

society should not be able to

dictate who you are.

I kiss girls in a nation

which looks down upon even 

straight coupls having affairs.

I believe in lust as much as I

do in love

and this is what it is

to be seventeen in a country

that cannot hang a sixteen year old for rape:

it feels like I am a criminal.

I am responsible

I clean my room

I make my bed

but I hide my bottle

of scotch from my mother

and I let her believe that

I am just a kid

who likes strawberries

and chocolates as milkshakes

and maybe I am,

but I know

the words I produce

aren’t less than

a hundred years old.

Maybe I am

possessed, but I have too much

dreaming in my gut

I exist where

books meet libraries;

I exist where

fiction meets reality.

I exist

in the most

inhumanly natural way possible

now

judge me with

your thinking cap on.

Please, do that.

everyone: 💀👻🎃🕸🍫🍬🍭🕷

me: