My Soft Underbelly
How I’d wish instead you were fertile magic that I can pluck from and plant the things I wish to see a difference in
Little things like stumbling over my words whenever I’m processing my thoughts and larger matters like curing global warming and solving civil unrest
Sure all the magic would dwindle with each transaction
But at the end I’d have what I always wanted: utopian level peace
Peace
Peace
Must be an air sign with its cumulus clouds, purpose unbound, teal skies, exhales not deep sighs, fresh cut grass, icey mountain caps, feather hoverboards for pollen to float on,
Much unlike, of course
My soft underbelly
That’s carried many
A butterfly
Colonies really
That have metamorphosed
through timelines faster than my own
Listen close and you’ll hear
tumultuous waves of emotions
Crashing against my lining
Now finding your temple on my skin I feel so open
Hoping that the storm can be put to ease
So I can breathe again at full capacity,
spread my lungs to flee, wheeze my way out of worry
Man if blurry was a feeling
I created so much space to store it all
Now I want it back
From my navel I stretch out my umbilical cord that fed and nurtured all the things, a horde that can’t be digested
I’ve learned my nerves can’t be converted into energy
When its only belief is cloaking all that’s in front of me
The guilt that resides from when I told my first lie
Embodies no nutrients for this machine
Thought loops were my favorite snack
Apologies accountabilities unsaid unnamed, no qualms
Embalmed is shame that’s staged as figurines
doesn’t ask for more room
It claims whatever vacancy just a cell wide
Till it multiplies, imperialize, until there’s a cell in my mind
My soft underbelly, so tender
You imprint every touch
By default you learned that you only need half the amount of oxygen that most folks get,
Just in case an off guard moment doesn’t show your best
I hide you, I disguise you, stifle you, bribe you, starve you to what avail?
But smite food of the soul + food for the mind + food of truth shit it all runs stale
Lost in a vastness, this cannot be the way
I poke you, prod you, shake you, break you, hate you I cannot escape
Here theres full totality, the light struggles through opaque
You’re the con to my body + why I can’t wear a body con
I call my style fupa dupa fly,
Averts the gaze of all eyes
To focus on anything else besides what’s at the core of me
Abhorrently I drooped, exposed rolls
My soft underbelly, you are the result of many things,
Self soothing, loathing, lack of motivation,
Why cant you move and seek property in my tits
My ass got enough going on but you can move there too if you’d like
There’s only two features allowed to be big on a woman
It’s unspoken but its true
Not our feet, our noses, our arms, our legs, our foreheads, and definitely not what we hold inside
My soft underbelly, this is a letter to you
I hope your tears will make room
and wash away
What is older than my carton of milk
I’ll peel back a bit
Let’s start with what’s older than my furniture set
Paint chipped and all, and tree rings of antiquity that were handed down to me
Out from the mouths of open pores pours out
Old cocoons, tombs of blame, the rest of its cre has no reign
For space must be made for a child to come one day
And that child will be peace
There’s no place for you here anymore, contents that dwelled
You were the softest thing on earth, no longer will you give me hell.