by Ruth Asphyxia
Making space for change.
To crack open everything – expose it bare, analyse it, criticise it, realise it.
Draw a picture of your own mind and poke at it.
Spin it, pull a thread through it, dangle it, drop it, let it crack again.
For the first time, we’re settling the conflict within and we’re saying it’s okay it took so much time.
We ran and dove and rescued the lessons from the raging waters, pulled them back on land and patted them dry.
Focus.
Two voices shouting at each other in opposition. Don’t choose, don’t side – they’re both wrong.
Take over everything. Paint all the walls with your least favourite colour and learn to fall in love with it.
Now stay focused.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ruth Asphyxia is an English Bruxelloise in her mid-twenties who chooses poetry as her preferred form of expression. She wishes to break the limitations within language by assigning words to the feelings of pain and grief that, when unexpressed, become overwhelming. When she isn’t writing, she can be found hand standing in the park, dreaming up tattoos or taking photographs. Her photos and text snippets can be found on her Instagram profile.