Let's talk

I want to talk about love,
about all the times
I broke my back for it
and still was never seen
as something that was
worthy of it

men have made me feel worthless,
but women did so too, so lets talk
about the way being malicious
doesn't have a gender, how all
it has is a will to destroy gentle things

lets also talk about weight,
how when I lost most of it-
I suddenly became visible to people
who knew me my whole life
talk about how you disappear
when you're the bigger girl
in the room
how different people treat
you, when you accept oppression
without any complaints

lets talk about parents,
about mothers that hurt us
about fathers that are absent,
how nobody tells you when
its okay to forgive your self
for not being an ideal child

lets talk about race,
about how the black women
in the movie are never cared for,
talk about how this breaks
little black girls all over the world

lets talk about Afro Latinas,
about how hyper-sexualized they
are, how there's expectation
they're good in bed even with
all their clothes on

please lets sit down and talk,
about all the things that make
people uncomfortable,
about homophobia and lesbianism
about substance abuse and violence
about human trafficking and strippers

lets talk, so we open minds,
so we open hearts, so we
touch lives, and open the
doors to a healing that's so honest
the world bows down to it