#grasskind

I lay down with them in the spot they left for me

and I turn into one of them

we sway in the wind

bugs land on us to rest before they continue their path

at first, the bugs didn't trust me

but now they know I'm one of the grass

as a kid I didn't understand

I didn't understand why, when I looked down, I was not green

I didn't understand why I had eyes to see at all

no one understood why I looked longingly at the lawn

or why it made me so happy to have bugs land on me

like they knew

(in hind sight it seems so obvious

everything was wrong because I wasn't grass)

when I lay down

the aches of my bones go away

the problems of this body that isn't mine

for my true self is many

blades of green tucked in the earth