i love hard things?

mhmmm i love hard things

10 • 22 • 18 ben smim, morocco

i love hard packed earth beneath my boots as they hike uphill
i love 32 hard teeth, pushing past lips into the open air
i love bending the hard bars of *the rules* that cage me in
i love the hard navy of night skies littered with stars
i love hard cold tile underneath bare feet wandering who-knows-where towards who-the-hell-knows what
i love hard words pouring from strained mouths saying words needed to be said
i love the hard pearl around my neck, worn by my warm grandmother before me, somehow shaped from sand by an oyster’s slow tongue
i love hard, slick river stone, smoothed over a million times by a million rapids run
i love the hard of rapid breath, legs on fire, sweat dancing across collarbones, hitting the wall and pushing on. because i can. i can. i have. i will.
i love loving me hard, loving you hard, loving this hard world hard
i love hard. hard is the meat.
sink your teeth in.