Dragonhearts

the thing about storms

is that they have the power

to help things grow

or drown them.

This world is not for everyone but there are worlds for everyone.

because joy is best unplanned / we get sick right after this / as if no fraction of girlhood can go without punishment

my heart is screaming / but it’s always / screaming about something

My survival is still the loudest and most honest thing I have ever done to show myself how much I love myself.

I am growing up.

I am getting better.

I am healing

even when I’m not writing poems about it.
Some things are just done off the page.

we

have every say

in who gets

our love.

I have more galaxies inside me than tragedies.

Remember how viciously you lived

when you were untouched.

if we want to be good—we must face down the thing that lives inside of us. Commit to unpacking our anger in empty rooms. Understand our treacherous impulses and act against them, continuously.