Realize

We are skeletons draped in cloaks of flesh,
bundles of nerve and story

We are narrators of narrated lives,
constellations sketched in the skies,
powdered sugar dusting black velvet,
tongues of petal silk in moonlight.

We are clusters of single moments a single day
a single sigh or wink or glance or kiss

We are single words and turns of phrase
searching faces through fingertips…

we caress the pulse,
see with real eyes and realize

we share one another

we see with real eyes and realize
when every being is birthed into life
through a woman experiencing her power fully
born through a body respected by self and other
born into a world where all lives are honored

we see with real eyes and realize
how different this world might be

--Diana Tigerlily