What if you “own it”?

What if you owned all your messy, dirty pain and ecstasy as my dearest friend tells me?

What if you turned it into something sacred?

We don’t talk enough about the divinity in dirt.

In the parts of us that feel wild, raw, unfiltered.

We’re taught to polish our lives,

to sand down the rough edges.

Desire, rage, jealousy—these are the “unacceptable” emotions,

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