Foolish minds You’ve assumed I’m in love I fiddle around perhaps As I do with many, Testing my heart and my horizons. The clear liquid to warm me up, For I am afraid of a golden heart turning cold and rusting in a wicked world. Other days the chemicals remind my brain to snap out of its knot. Or when I am behaved, And the validation on the university transcript tell me I have succeeded I indulge in the treats the soil offers me, Fresh snow and white powder. But darling you’ve misread the meaning between the lines I am not in love with the substance, Only my stripped nature Where I tread lighter than my goal weight And I dance wild and free For the lack of rhythm doesn’t prevent me From stumbling over my heels in laughs Or kissing you because I please to I act on my desires and I fulfill my fantasies. But the material in between who I am and who I wish to always be is an illusion. I am not infatuated with the inanimate, only the breathing flesh When I am alive, and no longer living My own possibilities and capabilities are crystal, Demanding of an audience for witness For when my heart skips its beats And my jaw clenches And I see the earth with a wider lens More vivid, brighter and through a kaleidoscope perspective I am not in love with the pill Or the substance Only myself, Always myself. So you are party correct, But deeply misunderstood. As am I.