#sofsociety

[sofsociety]

two braids

two simple braids cascading down my head

i never knew how to french braid

neither did my mother

so i spent hours pouring over videos

hours in front of a mirror

trying to grab the right amount of hair

it never worked

not when i was nine

nor when i was thirteen

so you braided my hair

all my flyaways neatly tucked in

i asked you to

i said i loved you when you braided

and so i didn’t need to learn

but then you weren’t there

and i couldn’t braid

until one day

i came to school

with two braids cascading

i did it myself

i spent an hour on them

just trying to get them to look perfect

it worked when i was sixteen

and so i didn’t need you to braid my hair

didn’t need you to tuck my bangs in

didn’t need to say i love you

you weren’t there

but i could braid

two braids; sof

[sofsociety]

sometimes i wish i lived in a simpler time, when lovers would meet in gardens and balconies and would simply be in secret

[sofsociety]

“hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all”

- emily dickinson