“Our pollen you thought infected us fed our bees and kept us growing.”

And so she left, whereas then, she realized that just because she was planted here, does not mean here is where she has to grow.

Darling remember we are all the same with different coverings.

They wished you a home full of hurt but you deserve a home full of healing.

To the girl I used to be I appreciate you for a seed won’t bloom without its soil.

She pulled the thorn from her side and turned it into a rose.

Though I sleep with nightmares of the one who hurt me I wake up with the one who heals me.

In the morning she’s my sunshine and at night she’s my star.

I love to watch you become everything she said you couldn’t be.

You ground me as my roots grow I spread like wildflowers all over you.

I’m a prisoner with no charge a sack of bones in varnished flesh walking around hoping somebody will root me.

And even in my waking hours, I still dream of you.

You’re my crescent moon not perfect but beautiful.

I will never again give someone half of me when they weren’t even worthy of a piece.

The moment she kissed me was the moment I let him go.

Our body is our home and how I saw you treat your home I should have known that’s how you would treat my body.

How we yell is because of them how we cry is because of them but how we love is because of us.

The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it’s always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.

Because next to you, I can see new life bloom. And by your side, I can feel both our worlds collide.