Don’t ever let anyone use their dirty lies
to make a prison just this high and just this wide,
chafing and scraping the sides of your arms,
because all those bars they made
do absolutely nothing.
No one can trap the supernovas inside you,
expanding infinitely outwards at the speed of sight
you clutched tightly as a little girl of two
since a voice inside said “Just
wait a little more.”
So when you know the moment is now!
and your heart fights to shout, those stars will fall,
melting that iron into quicksilver pools
meant to splash under bare feet and
reflect your tilted grin.
