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contemplating suicide
this was us.
discussing what we should do with a suicidal girl.
me: 'contemplating suicide is a lot more common than you think.'
you: 'it is?'
me: 'yes, it is.'
and then the moment slid by without further notice
this was not too strange to me
because i knew you were not depression's friend
not even depression's acquaintance.
sometimes, i doubted that you had ever met it.
[but then i remembered that you are human, and the happiest ones keep the best facades]
i knew we both had facades
yours infinitely better than mine, most of the time.
but you had no need to hide your years of being alone
you always had a new person, fresh f
Literature
The Ghosts of Words
Words are for men
and women's minds will twist them.
They may speak, permission granted,
but the pen in all its might
is for men alone.
She knew better. All around
were women writing letters, books, lives.
Her brothers learned, and she listened.
One or two took pity, taught a, b, c
and she remembered.
And she read in cramped dusty rooms
where father never went.
Writing was next, with some practice.
Page after page of letters until her marks
looked like theirs. Until she truly wrote.
From then on it was all hers,
friends and family, towns and journeys,
words and worlds.
Love and denial and despair mixed in
carefully cramped
Literature
Lady Justice
No scream is heard with her lips sewn shut
No truth is seen because her eyes were cut
No justice is written for her hands are tied
No faith has she because her soul has died
As the world careens totally out of control
And people trade addictions for their soul
The collapse of morality becomes a torrid flood
As Lady Justice weeps tears of blood
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