Words for humans, pt. 1

There are some poems that make you want to run down the street screaming.

This isn’t one just yet, but give it time.

I have two hearts.

I have the universe in my mouth and when I speak my hands shake

I am extremely human

And I break everything I touch.

Three times I re-worded a text message I never sent

But I still hoped you’d get the message.

I told her that I wanted to feel incredible.

She told me I was a mad girl with a head full of stars

That I said yes to too many things

That I didn't know how to listen.

She made me into a fox, when he wanted me to be the moon

Pockets full, cheeks burning

I became the moon the night that I kissed her

With a face like that, who could resist

I’ll lose him before then

The moon is tossing up a storm

A storm. It’s all wind and flame and waves crashing about your ears like cigarette smoke

Filling your lungs with salt

And crustaceans

Until seaweed grows from your hands

And your eyes turn green.

She wants to tell you that she loves the way you take to the water

But she is shy

And you won’t listen.

You make her feel like she can do anything in the world

She tells me to take it in my hands

I become everything

She says that I am beautiful.

And she looks at you.

I wonder how two eyes can hold so much

And how the rest of the world hasn’t discovered it yet.

The world has ended three times since we last spoke, and I’m beginning to feel invincible

I am covered in bruises and I’ve never felt more alive