1.06.2022

I leave you cause you didn't need me after all

You are born and it is to a black life 
Full of abuse and strange things 
Monsters come up to you as soon as you enter 
Mouths asunder and fingers thrashing 
Dark purple monsters that are so full of blood 
They are a darkish bluish red 
 
You grow and it is to a black life 
That you consider 
All around you is death and atheism 
All around you are people who have misinterpreted science 
For their own gain 
There are nuns, but they are the nuns of the air 
 
You die and it is from a black life 
That you die from 
You leave this one and go into the next 
Where nothingness surrounds and evaporates 
With the ease of something 
That has done this sort of thing before 
 
I leave and I am a black life 
I leave you cause you didn't need me after all 
And I want to 
Be what you made me to be 
But you never really made me 
This life made me 
This thing that I am 
 
[Dorothea Lasky {1978- } 'Black Life', from Black Life]

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