lilypad watches as i stare

at smiling droplets on her surface

it is very peaceful here

to be beautiful green structure rested on water

naturally pleasing to the eyes

i say as she watches one tall person after another gaze intensely


eyes softening as her being makes things okay

she has nowhere to go

hates the romanticisation of flotation and whatever’s on the surface

of course they don’t want to know how yesterday shit got trapped in by her edges betrayed by her own damn anatomy and sure she looks beautiful now only because it washed off

via the downpour that took her sisters and neighbours away,

a pond massacre!

lilypad wakes me from the dream and i agree

my people love to find our lack in what we can’t touch and will never understand


to anthropormorphise nature but never care or confide in it

i don’t even know what your whole body looks like, lilypad

plus i would cry if i had a wet bottom all the time

these are inside thoughts therefore i must no longer disturb you anymore Miss LilyPad

she giggles until my camera flashes

i leave

come home

post her portrait

people find this very peaceful
   

      
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