http://slow.writerscafe.org/jellyfish21 The original writings of author Nyu en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776080165 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Like invisible loyalties can pass down beliefs, characteristics and life choices.  Trauma can also be a type of loyalty that is passed down. Let us think of the pattern and how it is transformed when a trauma is completely processed. Then it will change from something that is unconsciously.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/2900187/ I used to write about feeling unreal, And these magical moments of "becoming real" again, how magical, astonishing.I used to try so hard to feel real, to be seen. To be real.I used to try so hard that I did feel it. Placebo.I laugh now reading old works, how foolish but forgivingly hopeful.Now .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/2888012/ One day in the showerI was feeling warm and cleanWhen a feeling hit me With it a realizationMy life purpose had been lostYour love came at that costMy self value no where to be foundOnly your soft words to keep me from losing my groundI'll wear you off You'll wear off of me Soon you'l.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/2011681/ Me and My Twins: The Meaning of Existence Imagining the situation of having a twin that I am separated from for years, meeting them again would be an interesting experience that would make me think about what it means to exist. It would be strange to meet a twin someone who looks just like myself fo.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1834672/ The high fades down.The forest hugs my skeleton.It surrounds me, drying my tears with a brush on the cheek,"Darling you are never alone."I look up to the window above the tree branches,Feeling the spirit entering my blood.Nature lives inside me.We are all it's child to be.I'm a child lost in a woman.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1699578/ You and me, we're strapped to a dreamWe all just want that life we live forEach day working for that other day.Wanted to stop and just know that it's happening nowWanted to stop dying to live.So what is it? Why do we gotta keep studying when we figured it out?Why do I still feel like its all going-T.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1656945/ Right now I'm sitting on dull memories,Living a death as people often do.But I don't want to shrivel up yet,Or let these moments escape me.'Never knew true friendship like this,While alone I feel uselesswith you I feel boundless.Right now I'm holding onto your dear hand,Smiling at a tomorrow spent w.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1589255/ I remember why I started writing these poems.I was an empty soul with emotions out of control.I wanted to find the colors of the darkness.I died and was reborn.There is so much beauty in the world.So many secrets to be unfurled We live under a veil of stars.I'm only wise because of bad experiences.D.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1580946/           Isra pulls me close, "What is causing you to worry?" I am shaken to stillness. "Oh I was just thinking about human life...and your magical abilities," I manage to say. I can tell that he senses there is more going on but he leaves me be. It is a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1574517/ You hide in your shell,Safely in darkness so warm.You leave me in your footprints of frost.Without you my feelings sink under life's storm. But I get lonely just sitting here Inside this head.Even with all the strange places I can go.Free to explore far away lands That don't have physical forms.The .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1569674/ Tiny signals resonateUnder a false self.Crafted and carefully unnatural,You appear to satisfy all but yourselfOh and not me, nor anyone who sees you through.To stand so confidently in the shadows.When was this other you born?Who made you think you weren't enough?Don't bury yourself before you die.I .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1561121/ A soul warm with lightIs hidden under layers of dirt where others have tread.Somewhere there is something that purifies.A star dies in the black sky.A heart strong with loveIs denied by unreal fears of people who make it feel.Somewhere there is something that validates.A river sinks on the dry land... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1560152/ I am good trouble waiting to happen,An explosion of fun buried under old conventions.I rise above only to tell you what your unconscious already knows.One day you wake up to the sound of the truth and it shakes you.Jump higher, reach farther,And be ungrounded from this place.Create ChangeAnd love wi.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1546001/ I am a ripple on your safe, still surface,A disturbing craze that startles you.You fear to see me completely.Because I can shake you out of simplicity and it scares you.Maybe you'd love it too much.I understand that love isn't everlasting.I know that your reasons to be distant are full as the moon t.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1543702/                     On such a cold night a little touch of warm startles me. I wake to a soft hand on my shoulder, and a voice sounding, "You are a Usha, the demon princess and sister of the moon, I am your guardian." Even under a.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1541000/ He whispered through his fingers:"Help me," like a baby in a new world.He opened his eyes more only when she cried.It was a softened cry, Smothered by the isolation of his closeness.When he touched her, She tried to sink out of her own body.She focused her gaze on the trees,Envying how they freely b.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1532160/ Doing something out of duty.Doing disconnected from its doerLike honey that sits in a jar,Thick with expectation,Sweet with lies.Its vomited from nature,And slips onto the hungry tongue.Radiated to a single causeWe all lose our true light.It's pulled in, contained and seems to escape us all. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1522394/ Those words drenched in mystery,Of what could be and what could not.They sound like red flowersHow soft and loud,How vibrant yet small.Everything you say blooms in my ears.You speak through nature's colors.You are the bitter sweet taste of a rose.It took me years to learn where you grow your thorns... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1516507/           It was a dark, cold night that burned with the painful cries of my mother as she slowly died to bring me into this world. Every object was overcome by the glow of the crimson moon. As I would open my eyes and breathe for the first time, she clos.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1511323/ http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1511238/ So small, So tired,I am the emptyAnd drown into lifeless water.Sweating only to float in the tide,Life carries me into age.My eyes droop,Letting the fire smoke dead.I think only to lose my head.I breathe only to freeze.I start only to cease. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1500969/ Look not at who I wasBut at who stands before youAnd who I might be.Our faults are ripples Fading on the surface.There might be so much to confess.Why not rise to the sky,Growing a third knowledgeable eye?Study not into what troubles you,But enlighten yourself With that which brings life unto you. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1500947/ I never uttered a word when my heart was beatingSo loud that I heard nothing else.When your eyes rested on my face it was painful.I would burn red, leaking emotions and overheating.I panicked and fled.Quietly loving you from the hidden shadows.I spent all my time alone thinking of you,Imagining thin.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1498400/ A glitch in the system is free of society and labels.Joyfully do I consider myself this.For I am freeAnd purely crafted of human flesh.I am nothing without my humanity,and in my conscious world my heart is the sun.Below the surface lies the unconscious world, darkened by shadows from the past. In th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1498378/ When one leaps into flight, life and death are the same thing.Letting go of the ground to fall and remember how to feel,Every bit of soul screams to healed.Every fragment wants a second chance,But life only passes by.How can I trace the ending of my defeat?Maybe the day will come when I wake anew,Wh.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1494127/ Born of one father and separate mothers, we had shared many days of childhood.There were memories where the darkness didn't cover us,When we shone in a happy light.Now I stand with you; grown and different.Times have changed, Its all apparent.You are older, asking my young mind what to do.You lead m.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1488727/ I am a fleeting fragmentOf an image of my perceived world.I gather a breathe.When walking with a regulating flow,Life is movement itself.I don’t have time to stop,I don’t have investigate the evidence to prove lies are false.There are so many ways to believe.Don’t shut down a pile .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1470000/ I long to sleep hours of a dream.I long to wake up on a day of freedom.I want to live once in my life, before death - beyond birth.To wander to the shadows, shining'Till the bitter end.Life is defined by our nightmares and dreams.We create our own little realities.We are only alive when we have.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1453370/ When that wind hit me on the coldest day,I stood in it, held my body against the flowing force.There was a new direction that even the wind could not predict.Thank you for showing me how much I can thank the sun.For all those times I swore under its heatThat I was destined to melt into nothingness,I.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1440627/ This thing that reaches all over me,Sprouting from my head, rushing down my legs.Hair, oh why do you torment while embracing me?Tangling my body with a cage only sharpness can remove.Your so dark that I can only relax when you are dyed.Bleaching you of color to paint you again was a fun dream.I only.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1432920/ I can feel the light approaching,Every step finds a new light in front;A lengthening shadow.In the core of my heartI am free of time.The wind can’t pull me down with loved ones.‘Cause we have strong roots,They trail into a picture of heroic past.All the stars watch us now.We are circling.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1418908/ This is a poem from my current self to my past childhood self. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1418880/ As it cleans itself, it sees what is outside itself as more dirty.After cleaning for years and years,Humanity looks upon its clean world.But a clean world is a dead world.Concealed with concrete,Dirty air, all this war...What went wrong?It is a chain that wont break.It will only melt. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1385128/ sinking through a dream,slithering in between.I've got this thing that's resounding in my throat now.its enclosed in between.once it leaves it will never come back.once it has gone I hope it sounds gentle, strong and everything i was for the moment.if I think too much first the feeling has already f.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1384567/ Thoughts flow like flies hissing while they circle,Into my ear and out my heart.Everything changes just give it some time.I wish it was all one life but its not.That straight line walk to the top isn't possible anymore.there's some trips and some fallsand the soil is used to the weight that we .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1374553/ Fitted inside that glassScared of the windBarely breathingday by day, it's all the same..."why don't you quit?"I can't they say,"I'm here to stay.""We are in the land of the freeso why can't we be?"we can only be in secretso share your secrets with mewe will find a way out of hereinto the real .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1372238/ There are no decisions to make here, its all just set without a breath of life. Just the defining emptiness of black and white, where the killers of childhood dwell in circles without ever moving. The ground follows each crawling step. Only the crawling of still steps and bugs over naked skin. "chan.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1366407/ Underneath those wordsare nothing but tangled,rootsdesperate for the dirt.Scrape away simple expressionsto see an insecure human,shaded in regret.Like one who cannot make the first step,I shudder at the first layer of my surface.Is it alright to chase after pretty things...While I am so rotten?If I .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1361140/ Eyes float through visions,Flowing frills and shining laces.Dancing still,Singing silence,Throughout the blur of wet blue.Painted reflections caress the cage.I can see the calm of my dreams.I can finally see;THE BALANCE.Wisdom in a wash of wavesAnd smoothly along the path continues,Balancing itself .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1351199/ That one thing I once had,now gone.Showing me a darkness like no other,one whose power shaped life,shaped it like a death.I now live as death,remembering the one girl who once was,In this once clean body.The painful way she changed into me.Aware, yet unaware.Aware of what others had said,Unaware of .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1350968/ The concrete streets,her concrete soul.The flickering heat,her flickering heart.The passing cars,her passing thoughts.The countless rain,her countless faces.The fresh vegetables,her fresh awakenings.The clouded sky,her clouded world.A single sign,her single look.The flowing water,her flowing life. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1350946/ I woke to the pink strands tickling my face, their edges glowing yellow in the morning sun.The stare of her smooth grey eyes opened mine. I laid there, sick, weak but loved...by the girl with hair of strawberries. She healed my head with the lightest touch and my insides with her warm laughter.The s.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1347436/ I am the girl who wants all the treasures.But also the one who knows even if I got themI'd be the same person,In the same spot.When I feel pretty today,I'll feel ugly tomorrowI'll call myself out on things.Don't even bother with your newly found foggy truths.I save you; full of selfish thoughts.Give.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1345420/ So this is how its formedthose who seem to have it figured out have been shaped by their own mistakes.god will continue to mean less and less,as I grasp the ways of my living.I see that your stars are not out,you still believe in his sort of light.don't bring your insides out if you think they .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1342946/ Eyes beat like a heart,feelings crowded with red."if somebody's got soul"I sway to this, singing unevenly.jumping from chest to head.watching her voice collect the beauty of words.Snatch a hand and make it seethe song is living inside me.music will always be my favorite dish.eyes beat against it all.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1330414/                 Fingers melt with deathly forceeyes dimmed to a hazy starless skyand all the surrounding sounds glow as oneone endless murmurThat rock so set in the earththe water doesn't move itand li.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1329448/ Blood sprung and fell like glitterthat gaze followed it; still."break me up again why don't you"flies danced about."I am not alive anymore"smoke flew up.she was glowing under a white window in the sky."I don't care if I'm alone"leaves crawled in the wind."I'll never be at peace with myself"she shove.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1328688/ Dreaming I was someone else,when all realities swallow me.everything I am feels dirty,yet life itself clean.and there's no soap.and I have no bubbles.nor do I know if i need them.those footprints behind,how many tears will it take to wash them?songs feed my legsand thats how I move.pink in the eyes,.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1328659/ Several spaces ago I was thereunderneath sun and smileswrapped in layers of color warmed like the summer concretesleeping in light blue creamwatching the flickering fire with rosy eyesand guiding it closer'till it touched my air and burned though meburned in moments like wavesrising then retreatingc.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1326136/ Careful movements closer and closerreadying for the time the clock says gobubbling with regret yet ready to movewatching uncertainty fade through quietlyquestions rise with the groundblooming eyes are overwhelmed with the worlda human craves the warm open doorwithout that wish what are we?but f.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/jellyfish21/1321682/