The Little Black Dress

In my little black dress,
it symbolizes part of my feminity
my happy place
and the fluidity of myself
in moments of sorrow and pain
the moments that I build myself
from a stroke of a brush
to a dress that fits me

In that black dress,
my future flashes right in front of me
my career
my partner
my future apartment
everything that I hoped for is captured in this single image

Though I may be called disgusting or dirt,
this dress is what I look back to
the makeup, the shade of lipstick
the things remind me of what I am fighting for
the liberation QTPOC