The secret of life
lives inside her bones
It sounds like angels
whispering sign language
beneath her tongue.
Teardrops play
between her eye lashes
This melody
that is the gust of wind
flapping between 
a hummingbirds wings 
picking up gust
it soars
down the outer layer of her spine
She refuses to speak.
Its as if
She has genocide
trapped on the lining of
Her throat.
She is scared
to believe in love again
Its been so long
since her pulse
Has felt a kiss
of gentle intentions
Why won’t God
let me love
the way I want to
The way I need to
She screams inside
her smothering blanket of lies
Lies she tells herself
to sleep at night. 
She wants to love
like tomorrow’s apocalypse
Burning flesh
combusting into flames
Scorching skin
Melts like ice cream
sliding down bones
She wants to make love
likes yesterday’s tsunami.
Waves
thrusting against the nape
of her once sturdy back
Submissive to its will
The girth from life
dripping between
the follicles
on her skin
She is deep within
Submerged by yemaya’s beauty
She conceives
In the very most
Soft spot of her scalp
What she believes
to be mermaids
These beautiful
Mythological creatures
With scales
as rough as
Her molested childhood
She believes
they angels
with fins for wings
slicing through
The currents of life
Their tails guiding them.
And of the tip of her tongue
there is a little man
playing the soundtrack to her life
Tapping along her taste buds
If underwater angels exist
Why can’t love exist within her
She ask
Within this intolerable skin
I walk around with
Why can’t I find
Someone who
I can dance
on top of stars with
Burning the bottom
of our feet
As we trace
The sky with our
Devotion to love.
I wanna love
above the heavens
where stars are god’s fyaflys
Where cupid’s find love
Playing on the tips of clouds
Where god falls asleep
gently
from the sweet vibrations
Caused by the laugh
growing inside my womb
By love