re:visit
by Chello Solaperto
he asked me what is wrong and
i was so scared i asked,
have you ever felt something actually soul crushing?
have you ever met your soulmate and walked away?
have you ever had a bad dream that lasted the entire night?
have you ever known the feeling that you were about to die?
have you ever heard the sounds of space?
or more importantly the rings of saturn?
i’m asking,
doesn’t it worry you that the universe
is screaming all the time and
we just pretend not to hear it?
can you still love me after
i made you remember the monsters
that hid under your bed when
you were a child and how lonely
the world felt before you learned
to stop listening to it?
About the Author
Chello is a trans artist working within the mediums of literature, performance art, and media. Her poetry is an anthology that navigates coming of age through the lenses of gender, race, and love. She works to imagine a better world, and then creates it within her body of poetry, performance art pieces, and film works.