Art by Carmen Seijas @_carmenseijas_
You have taken over my body.
Just the way a forest takes over an abandoned home
or perhaps the way moss begins to cling to ruins,
making them their own.
A lack of light was apparent.
The dark damp corners of my self were your perfect habitat.
you flourished in the crevices
where pain was at.
Some days,
I feared that you’d expand, stretch within me
branch through my fingers and toes
demanding more and more of me.
I cursed you for this.
Tried to annihilate you,
starve you of nourishment,
You survived, always came through –
you clung to the periphery of this body
like a newborn to his mother,
a leech,
a desperate lover.
I stopped trying to kill you.
My body is changing, a transforming of my dark.
A new light inhabits the place, drying off the walls of my core
and rebuilding, my skin becoming tree-bark.
You are leaving soon, I know,
no longer desiring me, dazed by too much light,
no more dark in me that feeds you.
nothing to excite
You
came to fill the empty space left by a loss of love
an opportunity to make me a home.
now wishing to get out of.
Having taught me resilience, love for this home-body
you are leaving soon
having taught me the necessity of warmth
a daily tending to the self, like a sky always tending to his moon.
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