iron and oranges

through the thick of it.

little lights

i know your iron levels suck, and you keep running around chasing boxes of orange juice, as much as you love tea.

you keep wondering why your hair falls off along with the braids when you take them out. but you remember, “The good thing about hair, it always grows back” that’s what your teacher told you, and you wish they had also been specific with the time it will take to grow back. because you are soon starting to wonder, if they will like you even with iron levels that suck, and hair that takes forever to grow back. but do you love you?

i know small things can be all-consuming, that’s why i want us to focus on the little things all the same. we can walk under street-lamps and be warmed by the golden light and be like a moth for a minute, losing our sense of up and down ( side note; please go read the science behind moths and street lamps, I used to think it’s cute but now i feel sorry for them, oh dear). and when someone captures you on a grainy fujifilm in that light, i hope you realize, there’s more thickness to life, than thick hair, and there’s more to your being, than your looks.

i hope your iron levels won’t always suck, and either way, we’ll have orange juice. and yes, i’ll peel oranges, for you.