a question, a poem

I lay atop his bare body after making love and our eyes gaze into each other’s when he asks “Why do you like me?” I look away with a nervous smile and bury my head into his shoulder, not knowing how to express why, not knowing how to explain these feelings that have overtaken me […]

Holding Up Half the Sky

We holding up half the sky, wiping the tears from our eyes Fighting to get free while just struggling to survive Coerced in disguise, can’t walk the streets at night Just prey to the predator ignoring the brake light Our bodies are battlefields, breeding grounds for war Brothers looking to the motherland while calling us […]

Gogyōka

I let you hold the strings. You manipulate my dangling limbs, head, body, But most of all: my heart. I know not if you realize– I’m your puppet.