To be list

Here is a list of things to get done
Do not let it sit or simmer
let it spill, pour, overflow

Water

Blossom slowly in your own time
allow your insides to first harden
and then ripen with time.

Shed your past skins
boil them down to a jam
Taste the fruit that it once held

Do not add sugar to adjust.

Shake up your conformities
Demould and let your principles show
Run a knife around the edges

to loosen it up.

Air

the folds of your skin
the waves in your hair
thaw the lump in your throat

Thread yourself into a river
go in, roll over and pull through
over and over until

you are a pattern
a design

a sign.