I mean, it's nice, but triggering.
So many years waiting for you to come home, it feels like a lifetime away now, yet it's imprinted in me.
You're the shadow that never materialized,
the noises that scared me each night
and the feelings that went crumbled into the trash.
Sitting here in silence I feel peace, only it mixes with the memory of those green trousers and the washed out bears shirt, long, blond hair, giant green eyes.
I was just a child.
Terrified.
Hypersensitive and out of place.
I don't know if I was born alien or became through the rejection, I still wonder why you decided to have another child, I wonder why did he at all?
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Sitting here in silence I feel all my feelings, it's such a deep experience, the mood swings, coming out of nowhere. I have no idea what's up until it overwhelms my heart, I could never have felt so clearly before this moment. I keep growing, learning and trying, yet somehow my house keeps breaking; I just want a home and some peace.
Not just really, I would rather have the world changed, February 2027 say those who claim to know. I just hope by then I am at least with you. Not just really.
My brain is so confused, it pushes and pulls every single option that could exist, maybe I have commitment issues. Or maybe it's just how I don't know what I want ever.
All I know right now is that being here alone, despite the triggers, makes it very clear that I need to be truly alone in order to find what's inside my heart. And that terrifies me.
I also fear I'll become more alien and more scared of people once I return, if I did.
Where is this place to retreat?
It's interesting how the older I get, the more I settle into this very dissatisfying reality. Despite its incredible potential, humans decided to divide themselves into teams and play war, force one another, threaten and hurt. Created a whole system to support the illusion of division, represented by hierarchies, countries, races, class and identity politics, so you can pretend you're not hurting yourself, you're not cancer. Only, you are and now we're all temporarily trapped into your system, not even you yourselves can stop it.
You destroyed the unbelievable human experience on this marvellous planet, for absolutely nothing.
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So yes, I still wonder if the my alien thoughts came from experiencing this devastating reality, or from within, this sensory processing disorder, being wired kind of funny.
"haha" you'd say.
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If I manifest it, will it become true?
A knitting-illustrating-writing corner, getting requests for knitted goods, printing illustrations and seeing my book in real life, hard cover, even bookbinding it myself, with an embroidered cover.
- Go further.
Half the population, only those who can deeply and truly love, in my forest home everyone I love and loves me fits and is happy, at peace, lovingly compassionate and caring. Money isn't a thing, we work the land, we live by the seasons, we travel to ruins and remember to never get back to that.
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Maybe when we die, we actually end the simulation. Maybe that's also a game and maybe there is no reality at all. We are absolutely nothing, really.
Terrifying, this void. But it's so meaningful, this existence, this love, this life. What a pleasure and what a curse to have a body.
Oh, to have a body.
Claustrophobia in this bag of skin and psychosis of the heart. There is no heart, it's always been the mind, which is also the intestine. It sounds as if I lied, I don't. There is no brain and no intestine, it's all chemical reactions, so why am I so jealous, so shy and so scared?
How do I stop being so caught up in this game when I know it's nothing but that: Chemicals within a skin bag?
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Maybe tomorrow I'll manage to write the scripts, but I needed this peace, this creativity and freedom to let this frustrated brain roam through the chemical reactions. What a body I have, even if it's not like the baddies you may watch...
What I marvellous body I have. - yet the brain is a harder one: Infinitely caught up. So smart yet so dumb.
How do I get over myself? I already know the truth and the universe is on my side, it's difficult to let go of that which you have experienced as truth, especially if everything around you supports that hypothesis.
hypothermia.
antithesis.
antithermia?
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Beach house, but why are you someone else now that you're gone? It's confusing and triggering to know you are rigid here, yet free there. Is it always like that? Maybe that's why I can't climb you up.
Body disgust, learn my fellow alien, to lean into the disgrace of being a human and enjoy this vomit-inducing reality, you'll be fine.
I used to think I knew what I felt, until I decided to start doubting each emotion that came, is it loneliness or peace? What if it's not bad, what if this is just love? - Do that with our pathetic humanity. Learn to touch me without those breaks; maybe you'll take me where you want then and we'll see brighter ahead.