If Love Was A Mixtape

How To Fly

1. Let go, don’t hold on to the past, you will become bitter.

Acknowledge the present, get ready for the future and

2. smile, even when you don’t feel like it. Speak your mind, if only to yourself.

3. Breathe, wear your mother’s dangerous love for earrings, grandma’s bitch for a belt, carry her dementia to remind you to keep your sanity. Tuck your father’s charm in your front pocket and let it lead the way.

4. Dress slowly, with purpose, stand naked and breathe, slide on shoes first. Roll shoulders forward, feel the hurricane in your lungs, hurricane wind gives the best lift.

5. Wright brother your back, sink everything into your chest

push out shoulder blades, feel wings grow, wings are ok and flying blind happens,

6. everyone can’t be a bird.

7. Open eyes, find the tallest building, King Kong that shit, ignore the helicopters – they no longer matter, you have wings, arch your neck, stretch the fear to the floor, smile at the air, it will support you.

8. Things you have kept and shouldn’t – move them to history.

9. Amelia your brain, Earhart your steps and jump. Don’t come back, hit the ground, feel the angry bruise, tuck and roll, calm the cuts and

10. climb the next building and jump, the next flight will be longer.