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[hundredamages]

i look at the spider on the bright white wall. i stare and i stare. i think “she has entered my home, she does not belong here”. i stare and i stare. my cat stretches next to me.

what if she was born between these walls, and they are all she has ever know? how do i know that this, here, isn’t her birthplace as much as it is mine?

what does the spider know of life?

existing is a multitude of things. the spider is here. her days are as big and long as mine.

today, i will love the spider the same way i love my cat.

i do not kill the spider,

for maybe she is home,

and “maybe” is enough.

- @ hundredamages