For the record, I do not have freeform locs. But I get them now in a way I have never understood them before. IYKYK.
Every so often
I find the parts again
Recoiling when
My coils snap
Refusing to be separated
They became family
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In the time between now
And when I last policed them
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Their pain lets me know
They imagine an entanglement
I did not design for them
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I lay a barrier of oils between them
Jojoba, castor, carrying the drops of
Eucalyptus, tea tree and rosemary
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I hope they soothe
The pain of separation I
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Never understood f r e e f o r m
Locs before this journey:
Cultivated intersections
On my scalp
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I police them
So that the unkind world
Might resist policing me
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And I wonder
Where in my body I long
To find the family I refuse to part with.
WHEW!! So beautiful 😭😭😭