i was a child

i fell for the moon

told her "my darling

i'll visit you soon"

/

child i was

i never asked

about on her face

the american flag

/

it only ever was for a few

there's no space for us up there too

for better or worse, i'm lacking in net worth

so just stargazing for me

those words to the moon never came true

that's just what's natural for me and for you

dreams will stay dreams

dreams will stay dreams

of aureate

astronomies

/

these days they talk about mars

and maybe just maybe distant new stars

ooh, we've made it an art

ooh, calling things ours

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i don't know about you

but i'd be happy with just a piece or two

i'd make the space in this ramshackle place

and give it a love that no cost can erase

/

it only ever was for a few

there's no space for us up there too

for better or worse, i'm lacking in worth

so just stargazing for me

those words to the moon never came true

that's just what's natural for me and for you

dreams will stay dreams

dreams will stay dreams

of aureate

astronomies

/

dear moon, may this reach you

up in your quiet outer space

dear moon, if i can't meet you

i'll make the earth you watch

a gentler place

I feel iridescent when you hold me

This odd body aligns you're close to me

I'm broken, others always told me

but I feel iridescent when you hold me

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left her behind on my closet floor

she grew constricting and i, slammed the door

it stings but i don't try to decipher

day by day, the shedding feels kinder

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and the violets are already in my veins

And i'm transfixed by my newborn name

sappho's verses, alive on my tongue

my transformation's just begun

/

Bodymind evolves

And it's like a puzzle solved

Coming alive

With injections of this reflection

At last, it’s mine

/

I feel iridescent when you hold me

This odd body aligns you're close to me

I'm broken, others always told me

but I feel iridescent when you hold me

/

These words and roles used to prick and bind

But from your lips, they're sweetly redefined

Holy/Wholly, you love this mythology

Enraptured, without apology

/

I called to the moon, 'cause she knows it too,

The shifting phases, these unnamed hues

"i don’t care," they said, "for your skystuck eyes,"

"Not man nor maiden, yet forever the sun's wife"

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I find others like me

And I'm feather-light with glee

Call it new scripture

For old myths, a new picture

I will not hide

/

I feel iridescent when you hold me

This odd body aligns you're close to me

I'm broken, others always told me

but I feel iridescent when you hold me

/

And only then

Only then

Only then,

Only then

'cause it's made of love

cares not for what was,

across the world, it's glorious

a hyperobject, it'll outlast us

but we'll write its name in stardust

we'll write its name in stardust

and someone in another time

will remember us

Outta dormancy, feeling so free

You call me a weed, is that out of envy?

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I don't know who I am anymore

this truth has become a chore

I spend my nights, pulling the moon

Sometimes I'll think of you

/

My body and brain have changed

grown into themselves yet become most estranged

It's something I embrace gleefully

And I hope you still see

/

The me that you fell for

The me that's still here

things might be different but love have no fear

Under the new skin isn't a loss

I'm still me, and I'm happy

just covered in moss

Ooh, covered in moss, ooh

/

I was scared at first too

Finding out, I'm not quite like you

Overgrown and out of place

With a most peculiar, confusing face

/

But now I know myself

Better than anyone else

Right down to the roots

Of this teeming, dew-kissed truth

/

The me that you fell for

The me that's still here

things might be different but love have no fear

Under the new skin isn't a loss

I'm still me, and I'm happy

just covered in moss

Ooh, covered in moss, ooh

/

Maybe I'm too wild for your liking, now

But I've gotta make this body home,

And this is how

i can't resist these wings

and my truth, it's writhing, rising

Moon-blessed, no stress, better-dressed

These faulty names, this crooked growth, this unfair game

and i rephrase, re-alchemize,

remake this body as mine,

Rearranging, i'm rearranging,

please still love me, after changing, 'cause

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The me that you fell for

The me that's still here

things might be different but love have no fear

Under the new skin isn't a loss

I'm still me, and I'm happy

just covered in moss

Ooh, covered in moss, ooh

/

Flora or fauna, I don't bite

I'm just wanna make it through the night

So whatever, in the end,

Consider me a universal friend