I am a beginning and an end

A span of time

Birth and death

Light and darkness

The whole world is in my eyes, my ears

On my skin, and tongue

There’s a universe within me

And although I contain it

I do not understand it

Nor do I think I ever will

There are galaxies that spread within me

Endless waves of contelltions and light

But also pits of darkness

And bottomless black holes

Which threaten to consume the things that allow me to live

I feel oceans in my lungs

Sometimes it’s hard to breathe

But I always seem to resurface

My mind is made up of land

Sometimes I restrict myself from the seeds that give me strength

That plant flowers in my stomach that fue my body and make me grow

Sometimes galaxies within me begin to fade

And all I see is darkness

And the black holes that hold me from the light that seems so hard to reach

Sometimes my body hurts

My body aches

From holding both a whole world

and the whole universe

within me.