Harden My Heart,

make it hard as a stone, i'll skip it over the lake in the summer..watch it sink to the sandy floor. hollow out my internal organs and squeeze out my brain. 

i want to float.

peel off my skin that itches, burns and breaks. gouge out my eyes that let me see what i never wanted to know. 

leave me with my bracelets, rings and necklace. let me keep only what i want to keep.

don't tell me to search my brain and pick out the seeds and stems. i'll leave them there, i'll let myself be blurred and wrong and slightly off target. let me float through life, this is how i've chosen to live. to each their own, then we will all find a home.