Fractal

I am my mothers son,

which means I know

what it is to be restrained,

to shackle oneself for

someone else's freedom.

I know what it is to overflow;

to bubble over. I know what

it is to love with fear and

without it. I know what it

is to take on feelings that

are not my own, to empathize myself into blindness. I

know what it is to lose control,

control of a situation, control

of myself, control of things I

never controlled in the first

place. I know not having control

in the first place. I know how

to perform joy, how to smother

a wildfire, how to blanket one

paycheck across a month of

uncertainty. I know how to keep

my problems cozy but most of all,

I know openness. I know overcoming,

I know falling up and rising down,

I know how to use my spine for

more than just my body, I know lifting

weight and the freedom that comes

with letting that weight go.