I see her in the ocean breeze,
In dark and churning stormy seas,  
honey eyes taste salty air,
She’s curls forming in untamed hair.
I see her in the deepest night,
A starry sky of freckled light,
An asteroid, her fall to earth,
Caused ripples through the universe.

Please don’t judge me by the way I look
What we read is the content of a book
I may not be pleasing to your discriminating eyes
but I have people who love me, they have reasons why

One hug can collapse
my inner galaxy,
bringing me to the verge of tears.
Till I push them back
confused
by the strangeness
of my own madness.

i bathe in serene
sleepy mountainside ledges
kissed by lips of fall

to me,
you are
an art

                              to you,
                              I was
                              a tragedy