“If the words I use buzz away from my lips meaninglessly,
then we’ll let them hang in the air for a while. We’ll let those silly words
sit and make fools of themselves until other words come and crowd around them.
I need to flutter and hover and look at the diamond ripples
through six swirled insect eyes. Just don’t touch me for a moment. Let me sit
and stare at everything through my own eyes for a while. Let me dance in the
lily petals and skim the trembling water and buzz like useless words in the
air.
Do you understand? Let me lie alone on my back in tall grass
and see the sun and the water droplets on braches and the red tree trunks
through my own eyes. Let me color them and build them with my own words.
Lonely, strong words. Let me stand alone at the edge of the earth and look at
it honestly, alone.”
~Rachel Corrie, Let me Stand Alone
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
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