# Prophecy (xyz)

By Peter Pink-Howitt, 1 January 2024.
Web page: https://compossible.blog/2024/01/01/prophecy/
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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> "*I don't want them to take away my demons, I am scared they will take my angels too*"
> (Rainer Marie Rilke on Therapy)

Sallow-skinned with large pale watery eyes,

Skin so fair her blue blood shows.

- - -

Such a translucent child;

I swear the whole world can see her fragile life

Pulsing through her veins.

- - -

Hardly enough skin to separate her

from the world around.

- - -

Her enormous consciousness includes whole worlds;

Television springs such tears

A paternal scolding could never bring.

- - -

A frail and beautiful life she is,

she will need fierce angels to watch over her.

She will learn to push the world away,

Separate, distinct, with a façade of arrogance.

She will learn the human art:

Of turning papery skin into the toughest of hides,

Of hiding a fiercely emotional heart

Under layers of indifference.

- - -
One day she will come to me, wondering:

how it was so easy to lose all she held dear,

and why it is so hard to regain her innocence,

without losing the distance she needs.

- - -
One day she will come to me

with child's eyes still, that say:

"Look what the world's done to me"

- - -

I wouldn't have it in any other way;

so many thick-skinned thick-skulled people

are the cause of her pain.

- - -

I'm so glad she can't become

the thing she has always hated.

- - -

Seeking a balance,

she will learn to tread carefully.

Nurturing her emerging wisdom;

holding back just enough,

so her precious understanding

is not stolen by the world.

- - -

She will then learn; her thickened skin

kept her blue blood flowing,

And so kept mine.



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