introverted-ghost

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notCindyChen

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julietcaesar

To a Giant Far Far AwayDear gentle giant,
The words are not easy to describe you. You do not deserve a character profile description, nor do you deserve a list of adjectives that hang loose without actions to match it. You deserve poetry written from the masters, the wise ones who know the importance of words and how to wield them, the likes of which you have joined and continued to produce with a beauty that astounds me every time. Alas, I am no master. My words will pale before yours, little trinkets that only reveal my vulnerability in commanding the English language. I use them as a word thief would, with brutal honesty; words that will glow with every beat of my heart rather than the elegant truth you regale. But perhaps, dear giant, that is all I need. It is enough, I feel, to tell you this much: you have changed my life, for the better.   
Like the Big Friendly Giant, you hold me in your hand and whisper gentle words that soothe me in times of despair. Those hands are tender, brushing a Me and My Shadowi.
My shadow slips to silence among the aquatic acacias. Even here, leaves abound, draped over the fuzz-curves of his figure as he soaks up the moonlight. Papa's soft voice turns my gaze to the moon. Remember, Carlos, our shadows are but imprints of the moon. Remember the Eclipse. I shiver and hold onto an acacia branch. I'm careful not to let my shadow near the shoreline where sea meets sand. That's why acacias are aquatic; they drowned their fate with the sea, Papa says. We cannot, we must not let it be our shadow's fate. We are nothing without our shadows. And yet the tide sweeps towards my toes as the moon charioteers across the silver nightscape. I leap back onto the thorns, onto the blue leaves and pray my shadow seeks dry ground. Sometimes he doesn't pay attention.
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My shadow ripples to the privacy of the umbrellas. Some aquatic acacias were born like that, shaped like the human plastic as though it would dispel their liquefied sin. I think about joining him, bu