"Keep your mouth closed, baby.You don’t want to them to thinkthat you have something to..."

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Keep your mouth closed, baby.

You don’t want to them to think

that you have something to say.

Pull down your skirt, and unbutton

the top of your blouse.

You don’t want men to think

that you are easy, and you don’t

want women to think that you

are not something worth fighting for.

Can’t you hear what they are

saying about you, baby?

Can you attempt to untwist

your tongue and make them see

that you are more than just

flesh hanging off of bones.

Don’t worry about them, baby.

Being inside of a body

that is both destructive

and harmonious is not

something to be ashamed of.

Look at your skin, baby.

Try to see what I can see.

Do your very best to become

intimate with the parts of yourself

that they always told you

to fix before you got to know.

Don’t listen to them, baby.

You are both the sun

and the moon, and without you

there would be no life.

Without you, there would be

no reason to keep going.

”

- "Don’t give up just yet, baby," - Colleen Brown