Choose you everyday

 not just on days when you have love wrapped around your waist

 like marital beads 

bluish turquoise tangled 

white strings 

hanging 

choose you

 and all of the broken pieces

 that you hid under your bed 

the stinging coldness of all of the secrets you’ve refused to speak 

parted or perused lips 

that you deny 

because if they roll like hips to heart bumping Afrobeats 

They become just as real as you’ve experienced