Cuz the jut of hips keeps the earth in rotation and it feels like the best and most sensible damned thing to do at the end of a fright Cruz the knot in my belly has loosened long enough for me to remember unimpeded breath Cuz love steadied my core and grounded my feet preparing me to take on the knot in my throat Cuz the work ain't done Cuz the journey is beloved Cuz the journey is bewildering Cuz the journey is within Cuz I am no longer afraid of my darkness Cuz I no longer squint, squander or dim my light Cuz i will never be nice again Cuz i learned that 'nice' and 'just fine' will fucking jump you and take all your memory of your magic Cuz, although calloused, stretched and scarred it may be, even the toughest parts of my skin scald with just one drop of mediocrity. It is the unacceptable stain the god within refuses to don Cuz smellin', wieldin', howlin' like we do, we are exactly where we should be Cuz our funk costs Cuz I can cry and know fear and still do it Cuz I wrote it down Cuz we paid ahead and i love paying it forward Cuz i am forward and i love head Cuz I made it whole through the breaks of many a doubtful dawns Cuz I didn't just talk back, I spoke with conviction and acted in alignment with self-scripted guiding principles Cuz that shit scared me and I carried on Cuz I fucks with self-scripted hoes, docs, freaks and nerds Cuz i changed my mind And my mood And my energy And I made an executive mother fucking decision to get up off the bench and dance And let this juice drip down my leg Libation Liberation Wheel! -cuz of that juice, Maria Fenton #theselfloveguru #poetry #yoga #gynko #dance #blackyogi #bend #stretch #selflove #poet #writer #blackgirlmagic #womanish #womanist #nastywoman #evening #backwardsroll #rollback #pigeonpose #back #myneckmyback #juice #blackandwhite #libation #writer #bajan #dance
