The Only Valid Love Letters Left

My body once my greatest asset

Greatest blessing

Strongest being

Farthest flying

The shit don’t work no more

No more cycles now that the changes have begun

Trickery and ignorance seem to have won

Used to curse the days of the idolization

Sexualization of my body

How I pray for the memories as I lay in bed alone wondering if I will ever be my own again

The power to say no again

Hard and tender a body I say a prayer for you

Underneath the stars that I saw when reality threw me down to the ground and made love to me

And god spoke only once to me

A warning shot she proclaimed

Run now or you'll never be sane

Photo © Paulo Cerqueira