Sugar and Shotgun Shells

Sugar and shotgun shells

Sealed my childhood

With a kiss like a rocket

An explosive sweetness filled my lungs

Brought up in the backwoods

With dash of Bel-Air

Sweet like sugar

Hurts like hell

If you try to break her

Nail guns and steel-toed work boots

Gave way to champagne and ball gowns

Coffee in the morning

Turned to caviar in the evening

Followed by burgers

Because caviar is disgusting

The best of everything

Yet always with our hands dirty

Days spent in the garden

Turned into nights at the Russian Ballet

Learning equally the importance of Mozart and Lovelace

Shaggy and Nick @ Night

We didn’t know everything

But they made sure we learned

Finance

Grace

Poise

And how to Survive

All to art in our own ways

Model

Actress

Animation

Bartender

Writer

Writer

Singer

Producer

Creator

Back to the earth with construction

A badass with a hammer

Building something out of nothing

Starting a new life on the West Coast

Building your brand

Breathing life into the spaces you take

Breaking out of boundaries

Terrified but fearless

Equal dashes of creative and cynical

Sugar and shotgun shells

Shaped these girls to shape their worlds

Life marked by battles won

And the sweetness of loves lost

Subtly

Explosively

Shattering

Breaking

Violent democracy

“Please”

“Thank you”

And “no”

The sweetest sounds of a quiet rebellion

Turned into a roaring war

Sugar

The sweetness in you

Equaled only by the shells you leave

On the fresh-laid trail behind you