If

Yay! It’s a writing day for me:

If

she tells you she loves you

then asks you to peel away

layers of your skin to let her

in— that’s not love,

that’s insecurity.

If

he tells you he loves you

then asks you to swallow

yourself and children whole

without chewing, that’s not

love. It’s hunger, the kind of

hunger that ravages the body.

Don’t settle for love that

destroys you in order to re-make

you. That’s not love. Love is

not an army. And I’m not

a soldier.

Peace & Love,

Rosalind