Empty Nest

I'd be lying
If I said that I like my belly
It is no longer flat nor smooth

It is soft with waves
It giggles when I laugh
Plentiful and
In need of forgiveness
It sags
It cradles
It comforts
It will give you
Something to
Hold onto

It is where
My children came to
Be
It is an ocean
Warm
Safe
And Peaceful
They swam and wiggled
As they shaped and morphed
I felt their delights
While I dreamt each nights

Now it is my
Empty nest
So dear to me
It bore love
Like nothing else I’ve known

My Life Matters

I know I don't look like you
I believe in what you don't
You may think that I talk funny
My food may offend you
The way I love
and whom I love may be
incomprehensible to you

But listen
I am you and you are me.

I dream
I hope
I hurt
I cry

I want to be loved
I want to be needed
I want to matter
I want to laugh and be happy

Don't you?

Let's be
Let me
Let you
because I mean
where else do you go from here?
what other choices do we have?

Container

after i poured my heart out

i noticed that there was no container

to hold the contents;

nobody to catch it, either.

now i’m empty

and what’s poured made a big mess.

Untitled - For Me'Shell

I am drunk from beats
Words swim out of her mouth
Sucked into my ears
Stir up sensations deep down
I want to rip myself inside out.

My movements are
Not my own any longer.
She who plucks with
Her fingers and her soul
She who summons
Our hidden dreams
She who commands our
Unthinkables into distant possibilities
She
With a sway of her hips
Controls my everything
At this very moment.

Beats are so articulate yet
She implies
She suggests
She whispers vagueness
Contradictions so sweet
I want more.

But it is all too much
Please
I cannot take it any more but
Don't stop
Please.