Wednesday 11 July 2018

Tomboy

If you are one of them
you are not one for them
So hide your curves
In plain sight of their clothes
Hunch your shoulders
Hide the breasts
Speak their language
Be like them

Walk like them
Walk with them
Make an ally of predators
Take his mind off of you
Sheep in wolves' couture
When you take it off,
You're beautiful

You are soft and supple
Vulnerable
A woman in a man's world
They can have you
Forcibly, harm you physically
In a man's world
You are woman at night
Behind closed doors
In cover of darkness

It's morning, sheep
Whatever you choose to be
Today is not the day you wear your skin

Monday 1 January 2018

New Year Requiem

We are quest-ers
Left with even more questions
We find out at the end
We are being dragged to begin again
We only fake control

When you are thankful for an ending
You are also giving thanks for a beginning
But you only have one
Because life doesn't allow double wins
And yours is not the invisible hand in control

Control
When you try to get more
Out of this than you ought
So you set milestones to celebrate
And set goals to attain
To mark an ending
And fake control

But endings are beginnings
And
All that is ever gained 
Are questions
Even more questions 

So meet me at 
Your goals ending
Another beginning
And show me what you have gained
I know what you have found
More questions

Before you can ask
"Is this it?"
You are thrown into another beginning
But if you can find space
Between the old and new
An unclaimed space
Between the old and new...

Seize it, you've earned it
And have a Happy New year

To False Starts

Instead of early sprints,
The stuff of high expectations
The mother of heartache
Borne of the age-old scammer
Optimism

Let
The first few go
Unscrutinized
They bear no traits 
Of the oncoming
Trust that
They are not 
Pregnant harbingers
And let them
Flow

Make room
For false starts
And glitches
And do not go
Knotting them in threads
Attaching them to the unseen
And conjuring patterns
The ones that live in your head

In the name of
False starts
And
All that can go wrong 
Happy New Year