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This is how you survive


This is how you survive:
 You buy green vodka and yellow pills, you swallow anything that taste like chocolate. 
You don't let needles touches your skin remember you are a painting, you have a mouth that can build oceans and destroy cities.
You watch people dance with hands you let your hair grow you speak up to men that tell you they can imagine your naked thighs rubbing across their mouths.
Remember you are not just the moon you are the whole galaxy make people smile with your eyes and understand with your hands.
You remind yourself that you are beautiful, even when the world tells you you are different. Remind yourself that different is good. Be proud.
You survive by opening your mind, not by closing your eyes.
You survive by being you.
 
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