You are god damn beautiful
in your thick skin
and fragile bones.
Your eyes dance
into the night sky,
daring the world to hit you hard.
Your sheer humanity takes my breath,
your heart shattered on the ground
and your head turned upward
making love to the stars.
stars
Bargaining with the stars
At midnight on my sixteenth birthday
I climbed through the large picture window
in the living room.
On that warm summer night
I walked through the woods
and sat in the field
beneath the stars.
The blades of grass
scratched my legs,
and I thought of dying.
Tears streaming,
I laid my cheek on the ground
and closed my eyes.
Not yet, my heart whispered
as I drifted off to sleep.
I awoke with the dawn,
returned to my bed
and awaited the celebration of my life
until the next year.
Hey You, 