my core beliefs
super glued to my gut
not true, damaging
I am working to change the thoughts
that I have.
Elastic Bands
stretching and breaking
tensing and releasing
The comfort of love.
boiled plastic malformed into something
may or may not hold its shape
a shape, so destined to break
But you test it's tautness,
and it becomes malleable.
softening into coils within your palm
You take me off the wrists I used to be double wrapped upon.
like elasticity
the power can't possibly go out
with all of this electricity,
you and me
warmth from the sun
in a cold room
conditioned in the winter
to emerge as a summer shadow
you are as unbreakable
as the elastic bands rung on my chest
Holding my bones together, so stable,
so unbreakable.
your actions
are accustomed
to annihilating
all assumption
consume me
with the wonders of your life
I will wipe them off
your still, warm cheeks.
-S.S.
