Elucidating Questions

Verbal insecurity.

I can’t say these words they’ll all fall silent and hate me.

They say they’ll challenge my culture and my spirituality but it’s my own and I exist in it I can’t challenge what is already so frail.

Bitter broken anecdotes and some ancient religion exploded into the present like

I believe in them.

That’s a problem to me.

But he’s right there and he makes things happen to prove it damn it

Yes you’re there. Glowing brightly.

It’s fine because he’s laughing.

Because he knows the stick is my favourite.

Stop stop stop

He gets stuck to it but really just the stick

Just I like his stick.

What an uncomfortable question.

My connection to the earth I so desperately wish to leave

Is merely that I have the life she gave me and that is all I know

She gave me everything and I still want more

The selfish self of a person.

Standing on my mother singing to the light and joking with the joker fool liar thief

Yeah yeah yeah

Egypt is still calling.

I wonder if they have something to say.

Yes.

All of them.

In some way. Because they’re all the same person or

Two people in one heard differently?

Yes and no.

Because I know everyone has a second side

And I know trading is something

They’ve always done.

Sometimes you greet the trees.

Sometimes you whisper to the nymphs of the river

The dryads of the ancient bows.

If it’s all connected

Maybe she hears it somehow.