weren’t we?

When we were young?

When there wasn’t this

war waging

between head and

heart and

gut.

When it was full-bodied

doing,

full-bodied

being.

When the wisdom of the naive

was everything and

reading my journal becomes like

a letter from the future.

That girl, there,

she knew.

She knew.

That I’d forget things like

to carry around glitter wherever I went

and

why everything still hurts.