I want to be more.
    I want to be more than the bruises on arms
    more than the bags under my eyes
I want to encompass the stars in my eyes
I want to hold the wildness of this world in my stomach
I want to hold your joy in my fingers and let them tingle there for awhile.
give me your anger; I’ll hold it in the soles of my feet and use it to run
    I want to be more than the cage in my brain
    more than my lungs struggling for breath
let me use your pain in my words
I will take the clouds and stuff them inside my head
let me steal your souls to rewrite them into mine I will take your treasured fears and fragile hope and I will break them and build the future.
lift your hunger for something more and put it on my shoulders; I can hold it better than you
    I want to be more than this emptiness in my chest
    more than this heavy weight pressing onto my throat.
I will **** your dancing into my soul and let my gestures show what I never will
the oceans will become my body so I will never be ashamed of it; my most vulnerable will become the most powerful and you will never be able to enter without my permission
    I want to be more than my tired tears
    more than the memories that won’t leave
give me your violence I will use it to win the battle I wage against myself.
gift me your humanity so I feel normal
let me have it. let me have it so that
    I can be more than my body.