Oh The Cloud Monologue

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I’ve ne’er liked to write about myself Not when there’s streams,skies, storms, songs, sunshine And sonnets to write about the beautiful sound of a soft breeze blowing through a wind chime There’s endless words to describe the haunting and comforting notes of music seemingly created by itself The unknowable, unseeable composer, the artist with no body I look up at the sky and see simple clouds, but they are so much more than that Their grey sheets wrap me in their soothing silk as I watch them in wonder The clouds can create who they are, we look at them and see objects of every shape and size, implausible yet real Implausible, obscure, improbable, for the Birds The Birds, oh the Birds how I wish I could be like them With their feathers extended they see the world in ways we can’t perceive …show more content…

I don’t want to be here No that’s not right it’s just that I wish I were not Myself It’s too hard to live in a body that I either recognize in too great detail Or have absolutely no concept of I’ve become sick and Drained from looking in the mirror trying to find something, anything I can recognize I suppose this is why I don’t like writing about myself I have not yet mastered the ability to write about something (someone) I know little

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