Thursday, June 7, 2007

My stone

When I am sad and I've lost hope that the night would turn into daylight, I string a couple of words on a piece of paper, the way you thread colored little stones that you plan to wear around your neck during a carefree tropical vacation. The effect stones me. It is like rubbing my skin with a loess rock: writing has the power to rip off each layer of dead skin, leaving me red marks but also a shiny new epidermis that I need for the next dramatic event in my life.

And I will use the stone again and again. I cannot be myself again without the stone. I have to rub and to scrub my skin to stay in power and detach from my past.

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