a bit of advice:

a poem (escapril day three)

a bit of advice:

we are made from honey, sickeningly sweet. we are soft little creatures who belong to the sun. we sneeze when our noses are itchy, and we go red when we are shy. and most importantly, we love – that is, when we remember how. 

we are all too human, but that doesn’t mean we’re cursed. our forefathers were wrong, and just because they were haunted why should we suffer the same fate? i want to be held just like you do.  

so, throw salt over your shoulder and give all your friends a kiss. sin if you must because i hear sinners love the hardest. warm your insides with a drink, and sing and dance because that’s loving too. and don’t be afraid when i catch you looking, hear your heartbeat, smell your passion. i promise i don’t mind. i promise i like it. 

we learnt to love before we learnt to speak, so don’t worry about saying anything. lay out fruit and remind yourself of tenderness and beautiful things. convince the earth, all its blood and soil, that we are all too human and we are in love.