radiance and birds
some nights i listen for the sounds of living i worry if i go to bed when i first feel tired i will never be awake i worry if i go to sleep when i really fall asleep i will never be awake
i worry, i worry, i worry it builds up like birds sharp beaks flying up and out of my pipes tallons twitching inside my stomach but when the birds keep still using my intestines like a cable wire i can feel it bouncing in the wind of my breath
radiance holds me in a way i have never known you are radiance in the dark i can feel the energy that bounces when i feel the world you close around me so safe limbs like foliage keeping the birds comfortable i want to grow with you
i want to rise out of the ground in places we have no business blooming we are the grass in the cement we are the fallout flowers you be the sun, you shine i’m fluid enough to be the rain
