Safia
“her brass skin wants to be held.
she wants him to blow onto her neck with sore lips
wants to be his saxophone
wants to be coltranes naima.
she recites poetry across dc
breathing in tenors
swearing she thought
she saw coltrane in the audience.
she asks you
where you were
when she…
meet me for breakfast
hold your shoulders like you mean them
quote ol’ dirty bastard and khalil gibran in the same breath
tell me about the time you met the horizon
and what it said to you
be simple in your t-shirt
i think nonchalance is sexy
don’t care too much
but don’t not love me.
strong girls like you must be
the world’s loneliest creatures
your silences, their own wilderness
where the men
come with promises that they will be
the one that gets you to stay.
big-shouldered boys who will melt
their bones down into currency
and will want to conquer…
when you were gone i spilled and stayed that way, a stain, until you came back to contain me. i cannot be this way, a liquid woman in love with a man made of glass.
to every man who has tried to “fix” me-
the only thing wrong with me
is my taste in men.
Frida Kahlo
little reminders that i need to start enjoying life
(via lover-root)
(Source: brightsips)