Fragility//a quiet little 2am poem
Sep. 26th, 2013 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettOur fragile hopes and fragile hearts
beat themselves 'gainst bars of bone:
it's not so much the need to let them out
as - with shaking hands - to help them grow.
Look: this fragility is, in reality, a prism,
or, perhaps, a mirror. Puddle. Pond.
It's brittle, yes, but I suspect you'll find
that's at most half the story. Hard, sometimes,
to tell the splinter from the bruise. And yet:
what sparkles isn't always glass. Instead:
it's drops of dew on this unfurling plant,
this seedling in the rich soil of our pasts.
Perhaps: perhaps I don't need either key or scalpel;
it's neither glue nor grease will set me free.
Perhaps one day I'll wake to find I've opened--
eyes or ferns or flowers to the sun.
Perhaps I needn't be this way forever.
Perhaps in time it's home to strength I'll come.
beat themselves 'gainst bars of bone:
it's not so much the need to let them out
as - with shaking hands - to help them grow.
Look: this fragility is, in reality, a prism,
or, perhaps, a mirror. Puddle. Pond.
It's brittle, yes, but I suspect you'll find
that's at most half the story. Hard, sometimes,
to tell the splinter from the bruise. And yet:
what sparkles isn't always glass. Instead:
it's drops of dew on this unfurling plant,
this seedling in the rich soil of our pasts.
Perhaps: perhaps I don't need either key or scalpel;
it's neither glue nor grease will set me free.
Perhaps one day I'll wake to find I've opened--
eyes or ferns or flowers to the sun.
Perhaps I needn't be this way forever.
Perhaps in time it's home to strength I'll come.
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Date: 2013-09-26 04:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-09-26 04:42 pm (UTC)Also, you rock at icon labelling. I saw the pretty plant and went "ooh, I wonder what that is"... and moused over and it says what plant it is, complete with scientific name! :D
(and... it appears to be local to here? eenteresting.)
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Date: 2013-09-27 03:29 pm (UTC)(SOMETHING I JUST DISCOVERED TODAY: some members of the Euphorbia family LOOK LIKE CACTI. Also the actual reason I have this icon is that "spurge" sounds like "sperge", which is a thing me & the boything say with gentle amusement and a lot of love to one another if the other is being particularly Aspie about something [erm, but not if we are _distressed_ because that is different], but -- it is also the only icon I have of green and growing things, so. There we go - multi-purpose icons!)
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Date: 2013-09-27 03:29 pm (UTC)I am so so glad that this speaks to you.
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Date: 2013-09-26 05:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-09-27 03:30 pm (UTC)Thank you so, so much for saying: I really appreciate it, and I am so glad that it is useful.
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Date: 2013-09-26 08:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-09-26 09:02 pm (UTC)(seriously - very much appreciated, not because I am utterly in awe of you and still trying to get over thinking you're too cool to want to hang around w/ me!)
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Date: 2013-09-27 09:56 pm (UTC)oh another thing i meant to say to you. that is perhaps in part because a tiny version of you is sometimes in my brain but probably not completely because i know you (i mean, i kind of hope it's not all you!). you know how sometimes, cars are just like "i'm'a be all up in this sidewalk because that's the only way i can see to safely turn out of this driveway / parking lot"? i noticed today that i stop, check the sidewalk for oncoming beings, pull into the sidewalk zone so i can see, then check the road for my car's ability to turn. (i noticed today because today i stopped to wait for some people, one in a wheelchair, to cross the sidewalk zone before i pulled up. they looked surprised and happy that a car stopped for them! which in turn made me happy.)
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Date: 2013-09-27 10:08 pm (UTC)um, I tend to append -face to names as an affectionate thing (your FACE, but also "your face so fair"), but there is precisely 1 person I actually just call "face" as a thing, you will always be pip-face if you are a thing
heeeeeeee tiny me in brains <3 I love knowing that tiny!me is in other people's heads even on a part-time basis. Yes GO YOU and hurrah for collectively people being happy <333
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Date: 2013-09-26 11:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-09-27 03:32 pm (UTC)I'm thinking a lot about embodiment, and what it means to have a body, and how best to have a body. Ribcage as literal cage is an idea I'm playing with a fair bit (and how free oneself from that conceptualisation, etc), so -- yes.
Thank you. ♥
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Date: 2013-09-28 01:28 am (UTC)I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on embodiment if/when you're comfortable sharing them. It's a subject that has been on my mind also a lot lately.
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