Staring Seeing: You. Fishnet stockings, Ripped jeans, A Green, flowing button up, Crystals adorning your collarbones, Filling your pockets Runes Burning unpredicted futures into their denim, Bracelets Warming your wrists with the love offered by the souls who gave them to you. Expression, For you, Was never something shown. Shining, For you, Was never something shown. You Finally learned how good it feels to look like yourself To Put yourself on a shelf A pedestal Instead of 6 feet under your shoes. It has taken A shoal of revelations To realize That the world can only revolve around you If you let it. It has taken 18 years Of contemplation To realize You can only lose faith on yourself If you allow it. To see That If you grow Your potential To the size of a hydrogen filled giant. Your emotions, Like Venus, And Saturn, And Neptune, And Mars, Will Revolve around your protective flares, Manipulated By the gravity Of your thoughts and choices. Instead of them Pulling you Out of yourself And forcing you into the simplicity Of the very atoms You are made of.
I thought of this as I recalled my always missing the bus as a kid, and how, now, I (almost) always make it on time. This is part I of II.