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Mr. Nobody


My name is Mr.

Nobody, and where I live

no one notices

 

me. Except for my

reflection, and through swirling

chaos, my mirror

 

taught me, to mask my

insides, lights behind my eyes

with an outside that's

 

also me, just a

bit more brittle. My shell that

I wear doesn't like

 

think or care about

people's little problems while

skinny starve-people

 

sit in the sand while

I hear bubble-people speak.

The innocence in

 

them concealed as a

person, hasn't been pricked

by the planet's harsh

 

criticisms, and

the people they haven't grown

up to be yet are

 

trapped in fast tracked

single mindedness, without

seeing life's puzzle.

 

I dance my way through

a lost portrait of chaos,

have you ever thought

 

of the forbidden

garden of eden? Was it

a fruit perched in a

 

garden? Or the earth

that I walk on. Do people

think about stillness

 

before biting from

the perfect enclosed system

that beauty and trees

 

were frame formed out of?

Gaia kissed me then spoke

I blended into

 

her perfect portrait,

no more important than a

droplet of water.

 

Insignificance

is inherent to life and

I hate when people

 

think themselves taller

than forests or think deeper

than creatures living

 

at the bottom of

the ocean. My mirror sits

frozen behind each

 

of my eyelids, so

each time I blink I transport

to tranquility,

 

only to open

my eyes and find spaces full

of bubble-people

 

who have not yet learned

to blink, world shrink perceived as

the seven seas world

 

breezes and knowledge

that is fake and brittle. and

My

name

is

Mr. Nobody

and where I live

no one notices me

except for my reflection.

 

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