she walks barefoot
as the ground kisses her feet
in her pretty little paradise
she dances along
to her own little heartbeat

she sings life is hard
but love is sweet

she is the serpent slithering
she is the apple in the tree
you could be the devil
and still she loves so tenderly

in the garden of Eden
she is divinity

she tasted the poison
to uncover the truth

but why, my darling,
do you do what you do?
why, my sweetheart,
do you keep hurting you?

you don’t need to bleed
to know you’re alive

heart explosion
self implosion
sweet like honey

in the space between
what hurts and what heals
you will find her running

quietly now
she surrenders
who she has been
to who she is becoming