“a body is skin wrapped around stories, is tissue filled with veins that the truth runs through, is a box of bones with a voice inside.
i don't want to be a volcano. i want to be a garden full of flowers bursting open toward life, all of them singing,
i'm here.
i mean something.
i want to live.”
―
Kai Cheng Thom,
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
