The Jellyfish God

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I once dreamt that God was a jellyfish

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…cross legged at the bottom of the ocean

Drinking tea from an invisible cup

I dream that you were God…

I whisper to a passing Jellyfish

I have never been God before, he responds

What are the rules?

You create them

From where?

Your heart I imagine, I say, sipping my tea

But I don’t have a heart, nor have I a head

Perhaps it’s best, often I find the heart is unreasonable

And the head will follow the heart blindly

Then how are the rules…

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In Your Shadow

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A small piece about coming to terms with being mistreated and being ready to walk away from toxic relationships of any kind

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…have always needed to be better than me

Always needed to belittle or exclude me in smalls ways

So that only you and I would notice

For the most part, I have allowed this

I opened the door that let your behavior in

I stepped aside to clear a path for you

I dimmed my light so that you could shine

But I know that behind your breaking laugh

and your small stature

You are bigger and darker than you appear

You can disguise that all you want, but you and I know it's there

And I would rather walk alone, than together in…

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The Devils Hands

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This is a small piece about a boy who started a wave of bullying for my sister and I in middle school

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…was handsome, popular, loved and he held the entire school in the palm of his hand. The very hand that tipped over the first domino.

One day we were children and the next day, we weren’t. We were monsters, I shed blood defending what little of mine was left to defend but in the end we were outnumbered. We plunged our white flags into the soil and we left.

Years later I met the devil again, he was just as handsome as he had been before. His boyish good looks exchanged for a mans. As fate…

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