The Notes You Missed...

Adding them to a post because they deserve to be read and I don't know how to use Substack so I'm doing whatever I want with it.

a trickster works as a guide to help you through a lesson you would have ignored if it weren’t for the trick

-

Me: Thinking about all the times I don’t notice cat/dog hair in my food before I take a bite

Probable Hairball in my Stomach: happens more than you’d like to know.

-

what to say when cries are not heard

when screams are ignored

and actions blurred

when choices land on uneven ground

the ground may stir and shake the sound

will you hear it then

when your feet shift from consequence

or will you hold to your perspective

and act as if the ground has no say

-

i am alone in a world of not

a world forgotten to be

for i am whole once others don’t see

see their reflections only in me

feel their own words as weapons

repeated back for further clarity

finds me with knife in hand

pulled from my side when they shut their eyes

crying monster don’t you hurt me

a denial of self makes us all bleed

-

w…