Have you ever watched the death of a soul?
I’m not talking physical death, I mean knowing someone and falling madly in love with their passion and then realizing that passion has left when you see them again
Their eyes are flat and dull
the spark is gone
When exhaustion overcomes ingenuity
when that which you had loved has faded
When I awoke there were 3 men in the room. They all looked very different: the one closest to the bed had skin like muddy water with eyes the color of a blood moon and longish hair the color of the evil night, he was dressed in a white long-sleeved shirt with a tweed jacket over it, and a pair of bloodstained trousers were barely hanging onto his muscular legs, he had no shoes on, he could not have fit them over his massive paws he had human hands and lupine paws; and a collar that barely fit his huge neck. He was by far the most normal of the three.
The man closest to the doctor had bleached skin as if he was already dead blood was running freely from his eye and nose he had numerous brands on his chest and upper arms his fingertips were claws he wore no shirt and his disproportionate muscles were left for all to see. His pants had gaping holes in them where raw wounds were seeping through the gaps in the material. He wore a belt that was a chain and ran right through his body, held by an unseen force that kept him still as death. He wore shoes but they had holes in them where fur and claw peeked through the stained leather. A dark force surrounded him. The one nearest the door was the most frightening. He wore only a blood-stained loincloth. The parts of his body that were visible under the blood were covered in black, dusty, foggy scales. He had no face, but where it should’ve been was a mask of dripping red liquid that was too thick to be blood but thin enough to drip down to the floor he had no hair and claws for nails he was barely humanoid with no neck and bumps in awkward places. The doctor herself was the strangest person I had ever seen. She had ashy skin and long gray hair it looked like she had turned into ash there was no color in her entire body except for her blood red eyes. She was the most terrifying of the three because it was as if she was a black hole sucking up all life, hope and all things good in this world she was the darkest being I had ever seen. She was alive and not alive she was dead yet she was animated and walking around. She was a terrible puzzle a calamity if you will a person, yet a beast, someone who literally killed the mood and made her own sinister presence felt.
When they approached the bed it felt as if an eternity had passed when in reality it had only been a couple of minutes. The muddy-skin man spoke first; it was as if some of his speech had been removed his voice was a mix of gravel and an avalanche. Then the doctor spoke her voice was lilting and deceivingly contradictory to the words coming out of her mouth
“If you do not cooperate you will be scheduled for immediate termination. I do not care how valuable you are I will; kill you if you decide to rebel.”
I did not reply not wanting to talk to the horrible doctor, not wanting to obey but afraid of rebellion. As they moved closer, the doctor with a journal in hand, a sinister looking device became visible. When the men carried it into view I, at last, realized what it was, it was a suspension device, it was for keeping heavy things in the air for extended amounts of time and often used for torture.
We are living under extremely difficult conditions. Right now, we are trapped under heavy bombardment all around us.
I am pleading with you from the bottom of my heart—please donate and help us relocate to safety.
Our area has now been declared a ghost zone, which means the danger is beyond words.
Please don’t leave us to die in silence.
My husband Shadi was injured during the war, his condition is critical, and he urgently needs treatment abroad.
I beg you, save my family, save my children—save us before it’s too late.
Our lives are in your hands.
We are not just numbers on the news........
We are a real family—children who want to live, a mother who’s trying to protect them, a father who is injured and in pain.
Our home is no longer safe. Our nights are filled with fear and the sound of bombs.
Even the smallest donation could mean shelter, food, medicine, or a way to escape this nightmare.
I am from packed out bleachers and cheering teammates, momma's delicate hands covered in popcorn butter as she cheers me on from the concession stand but before the spikes and serves ....
I am from a quiet gym occupied solely with paternal affection, a father teaching his most precious treasure the game he loved all through life, small hands being held by callused ones showing how to dribble and shoot when attentive intention turns to giggles and those calluses seek to tickle forsaking the familiarity of the sport
I am from weary shoulders a woman running for her life from a madman, taking her gypsy brood from the bloodbath that her home became, her clutching hands desperately grasping those of her daughter and sons an sons running as far and as fast as she can away from all she knows
all she knew
to a new life,
to save her life
and mine
My emotions are like currents under the waves, deep and powerful and yet on the surface I can seem completely calm.
I am tired of having to seem calm
I want to rage and gnash my teeth against the light,
I want to scream and bellow my anger and sorrow to the winds
I want to use this power I feel, this passion to wound and break and bend the world into my image, into what I see fit, into what would suit my whims
But I don’t
I muzzle my rage, I suppress my howls of pain and tether my biting indignation to other calmer outlets, like logic, like patience, like fore thought and premeditation
I direct my anger inwards, I point my passion at myself and shape it into a desire to cut out injustice and create better lives and healthier places for those I love. I turn it into a drive to do better, to be better, to accomplish more. I seek to improve, to inspire, to incite others to also be better and do better and yet. . .
I am still left angry, my self hatred battering the walls I so carefully construct to keep others from being harmed by my emotion. And when the walls crack I am reminded of why they are needed.
I hurt other, I twist and my face contorts into venom and malice and reveals an inner core of ice caps broken over a volcano. The hot and cold fighting for control causing the winds to whip ever louder, ever stronger, ever wilder. And I wound. I take offense to words that should not hurt, I bite back viciously at perceived attacks and stab using words meant to wound in such a way that I can twist them later to soothe the pain I have so caused.
and so I must maintain my control even as I weep from the pain of being caged
Be not afraid of that to come, for you are stronger than you think
Be not satisfied with pictures of places, long to see them and be
Be not afraid of success, that which opportunity affords those who risk
Be not complacent in your life, but show your feelings and strive for the best
Be not afraid of emotions, raw and powerful, but let yourself express and experience
Be not who you were
Be not afraid of who you could be
But love who you are
It's. . . Odd
I'm deeply Appalachian
Fundamentally claimed and cursed and part of that mountain chain that's older than words and hides and traps things older than that
Those mountains were my womb, where i first hurt and where i first held, how i learned to heal and harm in turn
Those mountains are the spine of the world, sinking under the weights of ages, settled in their rage and power but no less dangerous
These mountains are flash in a pan
Young and loud and tall and prouder than they should be
They take and take and take and forget that if you want to keep taking for long then you need to take less and more kindly
These mountains are barren in a way that Appalachia never was
Stripped of life and all emotion except numb fury
The things living in these hills aren't tricksy and wily and powerful, they're injured animals on the run and they're cornered in by the press of toxic humanity
They don't know me
And i don't know them
But they see me, sense me, look for me
And I'm afraid sometimes
I don't dislike them
They're alien
They're wild
They're not home
But i could learn to work with them
But also? I miss clever jack, i miss the plants i know by heart and smell and sight
I miss the ghosts of those who should've never been there but dug in deep anyways
I miss the AGE
I feel old my dear
I've been around too long, this is not the first meaty church my spirit had occupied and these mountains make me feel old and weathered and like I've walked into a party i was not invited to
but my heart went west so now thats where we make our home, itll do for now
I dreamt of a man, with long black hair, curling and twisting like laughter down his back
I dreamt of a man with bright blue eyes, sparkling and winking and closing at my touch
I dreamt of a man with long thin hands, strong, graceful and grasping against my skin
I dreamt of a man taller than I, with head thrown back and face raised high
I dreamt of a kiss, tender and sweet
I dreamt of a million kisses all meant for me
I dreamt of a Man who one day, could belong
Ours is a life of certain uncertainty and frustrating simplicity
Those who do not see and care even less.
The soulless aren’t those without an eternal soul but those whose souls are born asleep.
They annoy me
I am awake, ALIVE
I was born that way, I don’t know why
I’ve been awake since I opened my eyes
I pity those who never awaken but I weep for those who awaken later in life because then they realize what they have missed.
You don’t have to be awake to be saved but sometimes that change in your heart can awaken you
That should shock to your soul acts as a defibrillator
or you have a choice
and the Psychosis will Worsen
Nobody told me about the day after trauma
That id go over to my grandmother's house and work in the garden
That id eat donuts and pull weeds and talk to cousins and friends and almost forget
Forget the violence id seen
And then something, a word, a picture, a thought slams me back into that moment
Transports me back to being scared and helpless and vulnerable and alone
And all of a sudden it passes and in expected to keep laughing and I do but only on the outside
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