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.  

seek.

seek within yourself 

and you shall find.  

hear.

(open.) 

introductions.

getting 

to 

know 

you.  

- introductions.  

melanin.

this

skin

is handcrafted home

to sound spirit

to vessel of Universe, 

the Gracious Gods...

o' sweet melanin.

- the brown.

be love.

we've got nothing to lose,

but have everything to gain. 

bloom.

dancing in the wind.

seeds 

scattered

on a placcid concrete. 

who knew ? 

who knew ? 

that we too

would bloom. 

apart. together.

all that i are.

you are.

we are. 

right now.

- breathing / apart. together

selective senses.

a sensual kind of education.

present.

the air 

still filling your lungs

the trees

standing tall 

as they bow before you.

when all of everything 

in its glory and its splendour

are here for you,

how can you not ?

-  the extant being.