I woke up one morning and everything changed. The color of the sky inverted. Gravity suddenly ripped me back to earth, bent my wings in two, and cracked my elbows on the asphalt.
I woke up.
God, it's like fiberglass in my eyes.
God, it's like cardboard cuts under the nails.
God, i fucking get it.
I wish I didn't get it.
Sometimes, people think they love you and maybe they even believe it. But I get it now. You can love someone and not even like them. How wretched. How messy. Maybe we are made in God's image, after all.
I mean, how could he like himself after everything he's done? How could he not love himself when faced with the reflection in the eyes of his Son?
I'm dusting off my tongue. Polishing the rust off my collarbones. I'm figuring out where the mirror ends and the flesh begins and the value in these veins.
How could I keep spilling it for you?
How could you let me?
I woke up, and I learned how to see ghosts in the people I want to love. I am exorcising those hauntings. Fuck, it hurts. It's going to hurt. I don't think it ever stops hurting. But there's space for that hurt in the skin and in the glass and in my bones and in the past and I will hold.
I woke up one mourning, and i promised to forgive myself. The sky changed color. Or maybe I finally saw it.












