I was scrolling through YouTube and I saw a video thumbnail of the Dune sandworm battle, and the sandworm looked much bigger than I remembered in the movie….so instead of clicking like a normal person to check and make sure I was right, I scrolled past and said out loud,
“It’s clickbait. I know it’s not that big.”
Of course my roommate overheard me and just shrieked “WHAT” like she had just been shot and only then I realized what I had said out of context. 💀💀💀💀
And I sound like an infant, feeling like the very last drops of an ink pen
A greater woman stays cool but I howl like a wolf at the moon
And I look unstable, gathered with a coven 'round a sorceress' table
A greater woman has faith, but even statues crumble if they're made to wait
I'm so afraid I sealed my fate, no sign of soulmates
I'm just a paperweight in shades of greige
Spending my last coin so someone will tell me it'll be okay
thinking of all the undiscovered species that must have ended up swept under the rug because they were discovered on a site intended for development or resource extraction and the discovery of a rare species would have stopped the plans
thinking of all the undiscovered species that exist in unprotected and heavily disturbed places that get overlooked because everyone thinks only "untouched wilderness" has undiscovered species
thinking of all the undiscovered species that don't get studied because if everyone knew that "already destroyed," "no longer wild" places contained priceless biodiversity, developers couldn't destroy them for profit
SPEND WHAT? ETERNITY? YOUR WHOLE LIFE? EVERY SINGLE MOMENT THAT THIS WORLD HAS TO OFFER? WITH THE MAN YOU LOVE MORE THAN ANYTHING? YOUR ANGEL? WHAT IS THAT, CROWLEY?!WHAT?!?!