To Love a Boy - Maya Hawke

I want to love a boy

The way I love the ocean

Wish I was not afraid

Of all I have that’s broken

I know I must behave

To contain all my emotion

But I want to love a boy

The way I love the ocean

Like a hidden cave

I am always open

I hold the space you made

I’m empty but still hoping

I have a feeling

A terrible fear encroaching

That' I’ll never love a boy

The way I Iove the ocean

I ask why

It’s better to speak than it is to die

One more try

It’s better to laugh than it is to lie

I thought I had a man

Someone who could hold me

But nobody can

I wish someone had told me

I was born yesterday

And I’m still wet, still soaking

And I want to love a boy

The way I love the ocean

The way I love the ocean

The way I love the ocean