Fake Eyelashes

How to love your body

Rhapsody of 

 Being inked in this body

Sunken in

To this pearlized

Because Ironically

We only fit into ourselves

We we stop trying

When we let the light

Seep into corners we didn't know

Existed

We resist

What need not be resisted

Inexorable to create an affinity

Between organs and faces

Among the luster of our dreams

And our curved and shadowed places

But let it be known that our scars are simply

Stars that need not be rearranged

So as I stood among the isles

Of a colorful store

Listening to "Catch and Release"

A wave of something washed over me

Tilted my head, closed my eyes

Still, and softer still

And for a moment

Greeted a stranger named Peace

Run my hands down my sides now

No longer feel the plea

That used to run through my head

I let nothingness be

 The chorus to my happiness instead

I eat my rice

Try fake eyelashes

And break free of this vice 

That would turn me to ashes

Promise my consciousness

A beloved home

For when we set free the spite,

Little blue bird returns