Planting needs,

Sowing false seeds

Feeding toxic beliefs,

Pleads

Keeping knees keen,

For my self esteem

Carving walls

To cave in

Peeling plaster

Shaving fibres

that don’t muster,

Clutching debris

in a cluster,

Catch me falling

Or flying

My eyes

don’t lie, 

can’t deny

the heights

I try

and climb from

Falls and gaps

so tall

I’ve been crawling

in the cracks

feeling the flaws

of the floor

And I taste

all that is cast

and cast away,

It is plenty

of pleasure

and pain.

In envy

of each 

nuanced

triumph

in morsels

of clay, 

melting in

sinking sands

Clutching Earth’s flesh

with every breath,

rolling waves

water forms

and ripples

Taking every 

shape,

small,

and gain

Filling vessels

asking,

“Do I carry my body 

or

does my body 

carry me?”

Brain electricity

Infuses elasticity

To think

To feel

Taste

Smell

And touch breezes,

Listen

to sirens

and swallows

For all your

grief

your toil

struggle

and fear

it’s a blessing 

to be here.