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when i was four, i plucked a cocoon
from the underbelly of a maple leaf,
planted it in the ground and watered it
every day for a week.
all that ever grew was disappointment,
but i'd yet to learn:
you can't save everyone
when i was four, i plucked a cocoon
from the underbelly of a maple leaf,
planted it in the ground and watered it
every day for a week.
all that ever grew was disappointment,
but i'd yet to learn:
you can't save everyone
Literature
inconsolable,
i
buried my skin
in my gut
in the flowerbed
of my intestines so
i could hold out
being open and raw
and feeble
long enough
for my flypaper lungs
to seep you in
and spit you out
into my bloodstream
as you pass through
the cardiac chambers
that bound me to
you
Literature
I will Transform
I have a confession
A secret
Of sorts
It's not a joke
A phase
Or a hope
I had a scared thought
So long ago now
Judgment and fear
It intrigued me
On new levels
Of sensation and change
I feel as though I am trapped
Perhaps here
Or perhaps in life
I want to admit now
That I am changing
To better my survival
My body may be foreign
With these God-awful breasts and hips
But I can transform
That's what I do
I have a confession
A secret
Of sorts
I am a human
Perhaps you can't see
But I promise you'll find I don't lie
Gender is beneath me
I want to be free
I will transform
Just wait and you'll see.
Literature
Restless
I’ve been living in the same breathy dream
for too many days now; I’m bed-ridden and
stale and I reek of those moments that come
full throttle like a car crash on a winter night
this is evolution where weak hearts
are afraid of the shadows and where
everything changes,
an apologetic wind births no remorse;
he will move on—anchored ship
set sail, I am the sunken wreckage
that never learned how to swim.
he will move on, Darwin says
I never had a chance
I wish I were the textbook sadness,
symptom and solution and endurance
but I’ve spent too long sleeping on the
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Lovely poem, very well done I think 
There is one line that I didn't understand, but that's probably just me being slightly dimwitted 
So no worries.