they tell you not to settle for less
than what you want but when they watch you turn down the things
you don't want they tell you you're too picky and that
you'll never get what you want.
Treasure your
Ideas, for they are like seeds that germinate in your mind. They
Root, Shoot, and Fruit into Concepts & Creativity that are
beyond Imagination.
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, just stay this little
Oh darling, don't you ever grow up
Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple
I won't let nobody hurt you
Won't let no one break your heart
And no one will desert you
Just try to never grow up, never grow
up
To my
child, I am not perfect and sometimes
we are learning together because you teach
me so much about life. Please always
remember that I am doing my best.
No matter how tired, or stressed or
frustrated I may get, I will NEVER give up.
Love, mommy
Your body as confession,
as bible story: here
beneath your left earlobe
best friends became strangers, there
beside your Adam’s apple
we were born again. Somewhere
on your solar plexus still lies
21 offerings cremated
ashes to ashes, dust to –
Your body as original sin:
mother abandons Eden to barter
breast for bone, grafting you
from her cologne. You smell of
death even when you don’t mean to.
Your body as prayer,
as scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-13
“Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not
self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.”
John 14:6 “I am the way,
the truth and the life.”
Your body as hymnals,
your body as amazing grace,
as hallelujah! hallelujah!, as
a-f.ucking-men.
Your body as church, your body as graveyard.
Your body as purgatory, as pilgrimage,
as third-day resurrection.
Your body as forgiveness.
Your body as God.
There
are times I feel like I am not wholly here. Like I am looking in
on my life through a dusty old lens. I can make out the outlines
of the things and the people I love, but for the most part, it is
all a shadowy blur.