There’s a fairy who guards my heart
speaks to me through the quill
She sees what my heart wants
And can sometimes take over
This space doesn’t fit the both of us
She wants things I’d never
And I she’d never
You can imagine the struggle we have
Sharing this vessel
Her smile is sly and makes me feel cute
And her eyes
those look up when my chin’s down
She’s feisty
and rampage is her middle name
I kicked her right out one morning
She had me out drinking
Shots of Crown and mixed it with,
I don’t even remember
She kissed boys and told them all my secrets
So I told her she’s no longer welcomed
She cried and cried
Then I did too
But I was serious
she had to go
I held my lip and I held my ground
She left lightly a closing door the only sound
A draft came in the window
what happened next was unbelievable
Goose bumps lined my arms and legs
And a cold ache seeped from my bones
My legs started to chatter
And then my teeth
I climbed into bed and just couldn’t leave
The skin on my bones went saggy and wrinkled
My mind became a black hole
all things got
Sucked into
and never returned
My cheeks went hollow
and my pupils grew tiny
I had lost so much energy
I couldn’t even beg her to come back to me
but she came back all on her own
She fed me bathed me
and coaxed me out of bed
Slowly the black hole dissolved
Till it was as if she’d never left
and now we’re here doing nothing
but writing our co-existence into life.
-Saschia Johnson
This is nice.
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Jayne, this was truly beautiful.
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Thank you for the kind words Cristian.
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Amazing.
Well penned!!
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thank you 😀
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You are welcome.
Have a great evening ahead.
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This is deep. I really enjoyed it because I could relate in terms of how I see my “old life” and hate when it tries to creep back in, yet realize that without it I wouldn’t be who I am today.
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Ah yes! exactly
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Love this one
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Ah yes…. my fairy 🧚♀️ I’m glad you brought this out if the collection. I haven’t read it in a while.
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it was. you are. writing is. i read from what was. it gave light to what is. my oldest writing captures me in ways i can’t keep up. it is uncomfortable and awkward to watch the words that were.
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Beautiful words.
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