the recoiling.

(tenderly.) 

the coming back to you.

- the recoiling. 

habits.

look at how we summon the calm 

from our nerves,

piecing feel after displaced feel back 

to its rightful place. 

trying to breathe through our bones.  

- habits. / cigarette smoke.  

heart.

seek.

seek within yourself 

and you shall find.  

hear.

(open.) 

currency

(anxious money.)

sometimes.

so.

(so.)

#blackgirlmagic

borne 

of 

magic.  

the narrative.

to be anger

bound

to be

unsettled

home

to feel

conditionally free

to live

(maybe)

to want.

(wanted)

and to stay wanting.

- the black narrative.

(even in 2015)

resurrection.

some nights

i catch myself

breathing

which often leads to elementary questions 

like 

who put this air into my lungs 

turned me into this brazen beast of breath

theres magic going on 

in our chests 

a magic so 

unrelenting 

unresting

yet at times 

i still forget to breathe

unselfishly

but wholly

how we forget

this forgetting

so easy to slip into

so comfortable 

this second skin to turn into a home

this air

this breath 

is not ours alone. 

(each time

we resurrect.)

- resurrection.

all of it and all of us.

 a collective. 

becoming. 

- one. 

trust'ing.

when your destiny is being whispered

into your ears 

by the winds

listen.

and trust.

and believe. 

intention.

as

soft

as 

they

come. 

magic.

the humanity.

as my 

humanity 

is poetry 

so is 

my poetry humanity. 

- sentence. circle.  square. cycle. 

(shape-shifting) 

introductions.

getting 

to 

know 

you.  

- introductions.  

be-ing.

how about
you
be
your fabulous
self,
love?

show and tell.

the language 

of becoming.  

you.

you.