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“You deserve someone who lets you glow in every way you need to.”
― Wild Embers
― Wild Embers
“They will ask us in the future how it happened,
who allowed it, how could we just ignore it
when it stormed in so loudly,
like a thunderous beast,
could we not hear it?
This half beast half demon sitting
outside our doors, growling,
baring teeth, ready to rip out
the throats of whole people
erase the marginalized,
rip into the bones of the vulnerable,
why did we just sit there and watch
helplessly, asking no questions,
show them the evidence of
the thunderous applause
each act of cruelty is greeted with,
show them the raucous laughter
with which they celebrate the pain
each marginalized person feels
as their rights and liberties are taken.
Let them see for themselves
The bare bones of truth
until they realise, like us, horrified,
"The cruelty was the point.
My God, the cruelty was the point.”
―
who allowed it, how could we just ignore it
when it stormed in so loudly,
like a thunderous beast,
could we not hear it?
This half beast half demon sitting
outside our doors, growling,
baring teeth, ready to rip out
the throats of whole people
erase the marginalized,
rip into the bones of the vulnerable,
why did we just sit there and watch
helplessly, asking no questions,
show them the evidence of
the thunderous applause
each act of cruelty is greeted with,
show them the raucous laughter
with which they celebrate the pain
each marginalized person feels
as their rights and liberties are taken.
Let them see for themselves
The bare bones of truth
until they realise, like us, horrified,
"The cruelty was the point.
My God, the cruelty was the point.”
―
“Her mother told her
she could grow up to be
anything she wanted to be,
so she grew up to become
the strongest of the strong,
the strangest of the strange,
the wildest of the wild,
the wolf leading the wolves.”
―
she could grow up to be
anything she wanted to be,
so she grew up to become
the strongest of the strong,
the strangest of the strange,
the wildest of the wild,
the wolf leading the wolves.”
―
“That sadness that you do not speak of,
that haunts you in the ache of midnight.
Give it to me.
I want to heal that.”
―
that haunts you in the ache of midnight.
Give it to me.
I want to heal that.”
―
“Persephone, grant me the foresight to know when I must let go my old life to start anew.
Artemis, grant me the strength of your spine when you helped deliver Apollo, your own twin.
Athena, grant me the solidarity in your sinews for which you were born in all of your armour.
Aphrodite, grant me the kind of heart that always follows my passions true.
Andromeda grant me the wish to never fall out of love with the night sky or the glisten of it’s stars.
And Hera, grant me your fury, so I can remind my enemies I am not the weakness they perceive, I am the oncoming storm, I am war.”
―
Artemis, grant me the strength of your spine when you helped deliver Apollo, your own twin.
Athena, grant me the solidarity in your sinews for which you were born in all of your armour.
Aphrodite, grant me the kind of heart that always follows my passions true.
Andromeda grant me the wish to never fall out of love with the night sky or the glisten of it’s stars.
And Hera, grant me your fury, so I can remind my enemies I am not the weakness they perceive, I am the oncoming storm, I am war.”
―
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