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Writer's pictureEva Chacole

You Are Not

Stop

the incessant- that carrying on you do

that thing - I do it too, don't get me wrong.

clawing and raking at your own sweet self

you don't ever need to feel like

you are not

anything

a magnolia leaf on the coldest day of spring when the sun hurls rainbows at the dew

as though you are not

some kind of ethereal being

made of the breath of

a Force so almighty the very aura of the cosmos quakes at the thought of its power

even as if you are not

a sharpened needle on a snowflake so unmatched in shape and thought and feeling, so lethally unique and brave yet equally as beautiful within yourself

you foolish exquisite rogue- stop.

you skulk in self scrutiny and worthlessness

as though you are not

a formidable army of cells and sinew,

gushing blood and a pounding engine of flesh

with your feet on the earth and your hair in the wind

sucking life into your relentless lungs

like you won't recognise

you survive on your own will and unrivalled instincts with that brain that can calculate sums and that mind that can craft an entire universe

carrying on about every mundane tragedy

as though you are not

of the same race that taught metal to fly and machine to speak however morbid, and vile- a race nonetheless,

one who's intellect has dragged itself from stone ages into phone ages

stop

if one man can live on for centuries immortalised in a tale of two suicidal lovers

and one woman can reserve a seat for an entire race on a single bus

and one girl can take a bullet in the face so all girls can pick up a pen

you can stop

feel your presence here

you will not let your chance to rule galaxies pass by because you could not

stop and realise that you,

aren't not

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