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Survival of the fittest
Survival of the fittest
written October 10th, 2020
Survival of the fittest.
What does that mean?
Fit for what?
Fit for keeping a multitude of shameful secrets?
Fit for being able to fill multiple mutually exclusive roles?
Fit for loving the ones who hurt you over and over?
Fit for hiding in plain sight?
So you survive
and you are so good at being invisible
that nobody can see you.
You love passionately
moments from the past
and books from the present.
You are a multitude
but none is complete
or known by the world.
You hold the secrets inside of you
until you are the only one
that remembers them.
None of these skills
help you
in the real world.
Sometimes the result
isn't survival of the fittest
but just survival of those that survive.
written October 10th, 2020
Survival of the fittest.
What does that mean?
Fit for what?
Fit for keeping a multitude of shameful secrets?
Fit for being able to fill multiple mutually exclusive roles?
Fit for loving the ones who hurt you over and over?
Fit for hiding in plain sight?
So you survive
and you are so good at being invisible
that nobody can see you.
You love passionately
moments from the past
and books from the present.
You are a multitude
but none is complete
or known by the world.
You hold the secrets inside of you
until you are the only one
that remembers them.
None of these skills
help you
in the real world.
Sometimes the result
isn't survival of the fittest
but just survival of those that survive.
Published 4th Jun 2021
Author's Note
I have written myself out of life for so long, and erased myself even from my own poems. Here is another one that has been sitting in my notebook for so long. I don't know if posting it brings some resolution, or if now I will just need to write this poem again. I have heard that healing is a spiral. Perhaps the next version of this poem, will be more complete.
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4th Jun 2021 1:34pm
I like the idea of healing as a spiral. Many things are a spiral. Creativity is a spiral.
I think, also, strength is a spiral... The strength that makes one truly fit, that being, or being dependent upon the things that we endure and transcend. I think our weaknesses or self perceived weaknesses can become our greatest opportunities for true human evolution and genuine healing and strength. The kind of thing that nothing or no one can ever take away from you.
Signified in invisible forms that are still visible.
I think, also, strength is a spiral... The strength that makes one truly fit, that being, or being dependent upon the things that we endure and transcend. I think our weaknesses or self perceived weaknesses can become our greatest opportunities for true human evolution and genuine healing and strength. The kind of thing that nothing or no one can ever take away from you.
Signified in invisible forms that are still visible.
4th Jun 2021 2:27pm
Some of these were written one especially bad days. There are days I see my strengths, and there are poems that look at that, like "Alone Together", which I probably don't have up here. Yes, there is strength there. Thank you for your windows. smiles.
