An average being on earth
Who never tried to take a big leap.
An average being on earth
Who has always been a timid.
An average being on earth
Who never dared to upset anyone.
An average being on earth
Who shouts out from her heart now
Someone on earth please hear her out.

Bina Mukherjee

Heads and brains and fear and greed
You and they no just me
Left the pain and hear me plead
You and they yes you see
Mirror mirror on the wall
Who the drowsiest of them all
Do my dreams and sleep them off
Break my hope and watch it fall
I don't hope I just ball
I meet goals and win them all
Love thyself and make the call
Heads and brains and fear and greed
You and they no just me
Left the pain and hear me plead
You and they yes you see
Selfie here, selfie there
Breathe in a box for my air
Trapped in carbon shared
By me, myself, and I
Suffocate and die
In my own air goodbye
Heads and brains and fear and greed
You and they no just me
Left the pain and hear me plead
You and they yes you see
Mirror mirror on the wall
Who the one that they saw
Yes I the one that gleams
Yes I the one that seems
Like a **** king
Get  me a throne and a phone
With my number only mine
I will sign myself
An autograph no one else
So find thyself
Yea
Yea
Yea
Yea
Heads and brains and fear and greed
You and they no just me
Left the pain and hear me plead
You and they yes you see
My soul is the the top
I the peak they the dropped
My own box my own globe
Run the show ignore the hoes
Take the road the path I chose
Meet me there if you dare
I kick you back off the track
And you fall to hell so go
Heads and brains and fear and greed
You and they no just me
Left the pain and hear me plead
You and they yes you see

When I was 7, I bit my arm.
When I was 11, I pulled my hair and punched myself in the head.
When I was 13, I choked myself and dug my nails into my arms and legs.
When I was 15, I cut myself.
When I was 16, I burnt myself with a cigarette.
When I was 18, I destroyed myself with drugs.
Now I'm 21 trying so **** hard to love myself.
To leave behind the self destructive past.
To let go of all the regret and self loathing.
Its been getting easier, too.
Please don't give up.

The tenuous sense of self is crumbling
In a gentle breeze of slight rejection,
Whose worth is broken by extreme humbling
So breaking true self’s the self’s protection.

Breaking down instead of standing strong
Means the world must clean up all your pieces.
Even when the self feels the self is wrong
And the will to hold yourself releases.

The human soul is stronger than the hand.
The self survives outside a lover’s grip.
When you crumble you need to understand
Your own love is the greatest partnership.

You never considered how much trouble
It is to find heartbeats in the rubble.

He said, she said.
He lied, she cried.
But!
Then he cried because she lied.
Too many hard questions with no good answers.
But!
In the eye of the storm it's all blown away.
You can't shake hands with gloves on.

You are a beautiful star.
Like Sirius on a starry night,
You gloriously shine so bright
And can be seen from afar

You are brave, you are strong
You are wise, though sometimes wrong
You are different, uniquely you
For there is no other quite like you

Your mind, your eyes, your stride;
Even your flaws, are beautiful too
I hope you see what I see in you
For it means nothing if you cannot see it too

there is a reason
passionate men fall in love with you

men
who felt nothing

there is a reason
everyone remembers you

there is a reason
everyone loves you

and those who hate you
envy you

find that reason

hold onto it

and for Christ's sake never let it go