A black queer experience
Meaning. Part 3: Deeply
Meaning. Part 3: Deeply

Meaning. Part 3: Deeply

‘We are strong and enduring. We are also deeply scarred’ – Audre Lorde

 

Deeply

Adverb

 

  1. far down or in.
  2. intensely

 

Swimming in shallow seas.

Dreaming in deep desires.

Losing myself in both.

Finding myself in both.

Sitting on the edge of expectations.

Sinking in the reality of existing.

I am far from existing.

I am even further away from not existing.

Sitting on the edge of the desire for both.

Sinking in the reality of forever living in both.

Swimming in existing.

Dreaming in not.

 

I am

The deep and shallow of myself.

When I think deeply,

I am

Far gone

And further attached.

When I feel deeply,

I am

Far gone

And further attached.

The intensity of it all.

The nothingness of it all.

Still swimming.

Still dreaming.

Still,

Far gone

And further attached.

 

How much further do we have to go?

How much living do we have to do?

 

When standing and falling

Float the same.

When living and leaving

Love the same.

When shallows and deeps

Drown the same.

 

Far gone

And further attached.

 

Forever detached.

 

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