๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง // ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ + ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ โ
โThe gap between perception and reality.โ Cracks I've stepped through time and time again.โ A shedding of identities, lives, masks, circumstance, fears and limitations; and in this season, gallons of trauma i'm not even sure is mine ["mine" being a contradictory concept at the moment]. Yet here, in this space is what I feel. Viciously churning sea water, throat burning as another wave throttles me as I struggle to catch my breath. Over and over and over. โ โ
โShades mask a fatigue of ancient proportions- cracks along the edges of eyes. A result of a weary soul and a life only part lived.โ โ
โShowing in snippets what this world struggles to look directly at: a collection of experiences that if printed and bound, would culminate in a body of work that would read like some never-ending horror show of humanity's darkest and most devious potentials; everywhere, everyday, in every moment. Unconscious perpetration and equally so, intense and violent upholding of [the status quo].โ
โ โAnd amidst the carnage lies the paradox: the beauty of this place. Viscerally painful to witness in its unfiltered everything. To take it all in at once requires a stamina earned; nearly unbearable intensity. It's no wonder we struggle to see it. The beauty. It hurts. And we look away while clawing to maintain our place amidst[History on repeat].โ โ
โYou may think you know something when you lay eyes upon another but what you are intuiting is a perception projected onto a reflective surface- an origin story amidst tall tales created about "them". A witnessing of Self through staring in the mirror of other. โ
I am you. You are me.
Our stories;
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โHumbling lessons amidst the divide attempting to be bridged between divinity and that humane...โ
โTime to get real. โ It's all coming to the surface. โ Let's finally face it. โ So healing may be...โ
โ โFrom one human trying to figure it out, to another.โI love you. โ โI see you. โ โWe can do this. โ โWe came here for this. โ
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