Flowering Garden (Unreleased)

I woke up buried in dirt and teeth
It's in my ribs
They goin' through me
Every wound I tried to hide
Learned how to bloom when it was denied
They fed me fear like fertilizer
Said: Stay small, stay soft, stay nicer
But decay me slowly
So I grow thorns out of their silt

This is my flowering garden
Ground makes the petals-
But I don't grow where I'm wanted
I grow where I survive
This is my flowering garden
Hands stained green and red
If you step where I planted-
You'll bleed for what you slay
(This- is- my- flowering garden)

I shed my skin in the morning light
That's my past, like a parasite
I don't miss who I had to be
That girl was built just to be eaten-
Every tear I swallowed whole-
Turned into veins in the marigolds
I talk to bugs like they understand
They never ask me to be less than I aa

This is my flowering garden
(My flowering garden)
Brown mulch under light
I don't bloom for your comfort
I bloom now out of spite
This is my flowering garden
Touch it
Feel the sting
Love will shock when it's honest
And I'm done softening

(They tried to pluck me clean)

Call it love
Call it discipline
But you can't cage something feral
Without it learning how to get fucking (cruel)
I learned patience from moss and mold
How to grow slow
How to grow gold
I don't need heaven
I made my own-
With tillite, all the nails, and the brick-
Home grown
Mm

This is my flowering garden
No offense (no fence)
No apology
If you want something pretty-
Don't come diggin' through me
This is my flowering garden
Say my name
Let you rot
I don't pray to be chosen
I bloom whether you want it or not

I'm pollen in the lungs of doubt
I make you itch when you try to breath me out
If lovin' me feels unsafe-
Good
I wasn't built to be tamed
I'll keep blooming through the cracks
Through concrete
Through your facts
If I'm too much
Step aside
Gardens aren't made to be sanitized
Mm