in and out

i'm trying to wrap my head around how we become
those girls in photographs and how the
girls around us become those girls in photographs
and how our best friends have boyfriends
and how our boyfriends become our best friends
and how we travel around the city late at night
and text each other and get rides home with twenty year old drivers
and have the power to command children
and get bank statements in the mail
and take showers whenever we please and wash our hair and schedule our own appointments and cook our own meals and cross the streets by ourselves and have conversations with strangers and buy food with our own money and sit in our own space and breathe in and out by ourselves

by ourselves

i'm trying to wrap my head around how we breathe in and out by ourselves