rule #2-

stop giving that boy your attention,
he doesn’t deserve it.
why would you want to bother your heart again?
see, once you think to give him your flesh,
he’ll choose your bones and build a house of his own.
 
and before you say you’re lonely,
speak more loudly.
they just don’t hear you.
 
also-there is a smile and uncertainty inside your name,
let them out,
speak with certainty and frown if you have to.
 
you have whole pages and phrases memorized,
yet nothing can be told of why you are the way you are.
because someone who isn’t you will worry about things going badly-
but you won’t. you’ll drink your chai and say
Allah is most kind.
 
and what if everything you are is a mirror?
your reflections will land on those who know you.
they’ll wait for you to fall and say
“that’s where i made my first mistake.”
 
yet there is nothing in this world that you are not-
show patience,
look within yourself, 
everything you want,
it’s there, you are that.