Zayra Yves: Music

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UNFINISHED & UNTANGLED

I want to be unfinished. I like myself this way.

I like the sound of my voice speaking from a lopsided heart

like a mystic song played softly in the early mornings

off the fisherman’s coast

or maybe like some melancholy drama

carving its name into a wall -

whatever it is, this is the moment I want to be.

I want to be ineffable sweetness

untangled and unraveled and written by a poet

smooth as a wish that floats off the page

and kisses you in public (right here in front of everyone)

and crowns you with love and throws flowers at you.

I just want to be the old habits that fall away

I want to be like the garments of pain

that have been worn for too long -

they are ragged from wandering in the night

they are torn from ghosts

so they fall away.

They can’t cling to who I am anymore.

After all those years of waiting, after all those tears

after all that judgment, all that criticism,

all that finger pointing

and the loneliness (god the loneliness),

I just want to be unfinished, untamed and untangled.

I want to sway dance and move through the world

marvelously naked.

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