In the cocoon I stay, shielded by the white walls I have made to protect myself.

I will stay here, changing and finding myself until I am prepared to lose who I was made to be and become who I am.

I want to escape the cocoon, but I don't feel ready yet. Time is necessary for me to heal and I will use it to better myself.

And when I finally set myself free, I will only allow you to accept me. And if you reject me, you cannot be a part of my life.

Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both

parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard

Humanity i love you because
when you’re hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you’re flush pride keeps

you from the pawn shop and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it’s there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you

There were days when the cold moon did not return at night;

i would stay, frozen, under the dark blanket called sky,

waiting

for a sign of reassurance,

for a sign of the end to my loneliness,

hoping something would save me from the enveloping grasp of darkness

when the moon returned the next day, slowly until it was full

before it decided to start leaving me again.