let the stars inside you breathe,before the darkness swallows them whole.let them burn through your skin and light thiswhole goddamn world on fire.

show me all the parts of youthat you do not loveso i know where to begin.

love is my thighs,this belly,my eyes.love is my speech,the search,my cry.love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.

i am a womanand i am alone,and i cannot tellwhich one of the twoi love being more.

the woman is rain,and when she falls,she is a monsoon.to love her is to drown.

i am like the moon--sometimes, full.sometimes, black.sometimes,forever and ever alone.