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Written by Ellye Sevier | @ttownellye

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My mother fed me watermelon. Juice

dripped from the corner of my lips. Sweet taste masked bitter truths.

Poisonous seeds grew in my belly.

Vile vines sprouting inside. 

Silent, 

Invisible, 

Consuming, 

They grew. 

I knew not. 

My mother fed me watermelon.

She didn’t know. 

She didn’t mean to let 

poisonous seeds grow. 

home, for now 

my belonging is torn up, 

my being scattered across places I’ve once touched,

my soul suspended, indefinitely, 

my heart a thousand raindrops scattering across strange fields,

dissolving into foreign waters. 

I am 

nowhere 

and 

I am 

everywhere. 

where is home? 

home is nowhere, 

for now.