moonshine
Imagine if instead of death,
We likened fire to birth
Kindling our purpose
To extinguish Hell on Earth
You see—I live in a world
Where we all fall on the spectrum
Leaving people speculating
Wondering if there’s a Heaven
Cause from day one we’re taught to hide
Those things unlike the others
Stuffing DNA frames with secrets and shame
Gripping on to self-blame
Cursing your name
Jamming in bits of pain
Getting tired of this game
Convincing you I’m sane
All the while my soul’s been smothered—
in helixes
here it is
don’t exist
if you insist
Craftsmen we’ve become
Building structures, casting shadows
Seceding from the Sun
Carving self-hatred arrows
Arrows for a martyr
A repeated “self-starter”
“Never gonna toss that garter”
“Sister’s always been smarter”
“Life only gets harder”
With each gouge you fall farther
Down
A familiar fault line—
Reminds you
That the moon too
Has been known to shine.
And you never feared the darkness
No, you hid only from what it held
But, running from the smell
of a rotten mind can leave you blind
to all the light inside your shell.