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“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” e.e. cummings

The system is broke - words are as words do
they move, clear, pretend, imagine, lift, care, open up the impossible to be seen, heard.
words tell me to find my voice
and write, write, write
and so I do
and the words tell me to publish, publish, publish
and so I don't.

I don't want the ... what?
responsibility

Why?
I'm scared

Scared of what?
what humans can do

What can they do?
they possess the ability to cut, carve, unleash all the venom they choose into the soul creator of these words.

Why do you care?
I'm seamless, shell-less, open, the wounds could harm, infect, not heal

You already have wounds, don't you?
yes

And writing heals those wounds?
yes, yes, yes

Then what are you afraid of?
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It's advice I give out of love for you:

Grow up, see the world in all its light. Be a man, be a woman, be strong, be yourself, remember e.e cummings, remember the writers that write, that let go, that be who they are

You are no different—humans experiencing, humans loving, humans hating, it's all one and the same—energy inhabits all

Regret is a four-letter word.
you slam them down on the table over and over.
they pile high, tumble to the ground.
is there nothing but regret?
Give me hope, then give me more hope,

keep the light shining on the movement forward,
not the dark path to the past,
clear away those thoughts that no longer serve you.
Go forth ... write plenty.