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Sing until you can feel the notes streaming down your face.

Taste the salt in your tears 

and remember that your soul is as vast as the ocean 

you are it's depths. 

I let people feel through the softest parts of me..

..but they would still sift through looking for some kind of grittiness. 

It's always something 

To the girl that made me feel

Although there was a color in every note

She was the one that made you feel rainbows

You tasted her pinks and her yellows

Thank her

Tender-headed

I lay in my bed and stare

At the light dancing around my dark ceiling

It seems like I notice everything nowadays

Feel anything nowadays 

I lock myself away

A prisoner in my own house

Tippy-toeing around this daunting presence

He hands me money and I am ashamed 

My voice box is broken and the anger that fueled me is quelled by confusion 

I look to her with pleading eyes

Save us

Save yourself

Fight for you

Fight for a love that is cocooning 

For a love that licks the tips of your fingers 

And tickles your nose 

For the smell of sunshine on your hair 

Your waist heralded with moon flowers 

Fight 

Want something real for the first time in your life

Something beyond the dizzying of over-proof rum

More than the blundering frustrations that leave his mouth

Fight for something real

For us

For you 

Herodias

You all forget sometimes,

How powerful women are. 

It was a woman who carried Jesus, 

Women whom were the first to look upon his face after his death, 

and when he was raised

It was a woman ordered John the Baptist to be killed, 

It was a woman who turned this whole world upside down. 

Sojourner truth said 

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again!" 

You better watch out.. 

Any

It's like we spill into each other

The weight of the day, carried on our backs

We finally explode 

The dams burst 

We feed into each other 

Her laughter filling me 

We are soul sisters 

Magic

"So black, she's blue"
Full of color
Life
Vibrancy in her bones
Sun leaping from her lips

True blue
Blue-black
Black and blue
Boo-hoo
Who's blue?
Black

She is magic