I'm really good at being the person that other people need me to be; at saying exactly what is needed or expected, or shaping my face into the form that is required for the mood of the conversation. But there are times when the truth slips from my lips in strong rivulets, feeling hot and flowing like blood or something vital, needing to find it's place in the world and come out from that dark place I've been keeping it locked up in. My mouth moves of its own accord and I don't need to think or plan as I speak, I just urge it forward and it comes, streaming forth from somewhere inside me until there is nothing else left to say.
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If death is by definition the parting of the body and the soul, is it not then painful? It seems to me that the separation of two things so intrinsically connected must necessarily be complex and painful. In life they are entwined, so that it is impossible to feel the point where one ends and the other begins; how can it be possible that in death they can separate without complaint?
This pain that you're feeling will not break you. It will crush you, and it will teach you that you are weak, you are mortal, you can be broken. But it will not break you. It will not be until much later, after time has passed, that you will start to feel whole again--whole and strong. You will still feel the pulling of your past, making you feel unsure, timid, uncertain--but you are not weak. You are strong for having lived through the pain, for fighting through it on the days when you fought, and by simply continuing to breathe on the days when you were not. I think you are strong, and one day you will see, with a sure and knowing confidence, that you are beautiful too.
If I could take you back to last summer, and all that happened, we would see gray. Gray skies, gray grass, gray space. Gray area. Gray would be the colour of the place where we would stand. And when you, looking back at me, search for words to describe it, you will not want to use that four letter word. He blamed you, and made you bear the weight of something that he did. And so you will say to me:
--It wasn't rape. --But something close to it, I would tell you back, in hushed tones that echoed yours because my throat was closing up like yours. I can see you shrugging it off and piecing yourself back together, a thought at a time, until finally you look up at me and say, --It's about time we started dinner, don't you think? And we are back in the present, and you are the same, with that same brave look around your eyes that I know only too well. You head back to the kitchen and I am left on the couch, knees drawn up to my chin, just sitting there, tears flooding my vision, hurting for you as you jangle pots in the kitchen alone. Dearest diary,
I spent a good 5 minutes this morning staring into the cool depths of my refrigerator with tears in my eyes. I had stopped at home, bone tired, after an awesome shift at work, and immediately had to leave again to go to the car dealership to sort out some stuff. (Sidebar: with luck, I will have a new baby soon, and I will name him Steven, and he will be mine. Mine and shiny and almost new. The new love of my life, because I am tired of walking and busing, and I can finally (FINALLY!!!) afford a car of my own. :). **sigh of happiness**.) When I finally came home for good, I decided it would be wise to consume something before I collapsed into a heap on my bed shivering (from the aftermath of a deluge of caffeine that had coursed through my veins in the wee hours of the morning) opened the refrigerator door, when something inside me broke. I think (I think) the tears were coming from exhaustion. The first night of a set of night shifts is never an easy one (this pearl of knowledge is coming from my extensive experience on the job, a grand total of 4 weeks). Or maybe it was, at least in part, a consequence of my mile long trek to and from work. Whichever the reason, I broke down, and I find this hilarious, 'cuz I don't know why it happened. I feel fine. I really, truly do. Oh, the joys of the intricacy of human emotion. She lives for performing,
Even if only for an emptiness of seats, And finds rhythms in the world That passes us by. When she stands still, it is so she may more closely observe the world rushing past like the wind. While he lies beside me in the dark, he is drifting
in his brain, behind closed eyelids while I lie thoughtless he remembers a boy of six in his mother's closet, surrounded, in an arena of scent and colour leather and suits, and a neat line of shoes he slips his hand into a pocket of a coat with a grey and white weave and finds the cold, hard cylinder-- dark red lip stain that he paints experimentally across his palm then leaves the closet as he found it Only believe in my goodness, and I will be good to you.
There is an unnamed fish
That swims in a little glass box In the corner of my room. I wonder what he lives for. I haven't been here a lot lately. I'd like to say I've been busy, and lately that's been true, but I have just had other things on my mind. My posts have been short and sweet, although I have written longer things, and just never published them.... Just wanted to share this quote that I found today that I think I love. I have an assignment due in 4 hours, a presentation to prepare for, and another assignment to start. So I've gotta get cracking, and stop procrastinating, like I always have to do.
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