Are you currently suffering from mental or emotional damage?
The following are the answer choices to the question above, select all that may apply:
o I am mostly fine
o I am mostly fine but
o His mother told me that as a child he enjoyed trapping things with wings in jars. One time he caught a firefly and cuffed it in palm of his hands. His hand became compressed as if he feared that the trapped thing would eventually escape. He described how he felt it crashing itself into the walls, as if it was suffocating. His mother scorned him. Told him to allow the firefly to fly into a jar; that way, it would breathe and fly more freely and lower its risk of suffocation. So, he let it fly out his hands. And he no longer looked like the sun.
o I spent the night cramming lightbulbs into my mouth trying to keep the sun alive.
o The next morning, I watered the dead flowers.
o A cage of gentle hands
Is still a cage and this
I know now
o I would have flown into his hands myself.
o I would have given him what light I had left.
o Even if it meant that I would be trapped forever.
o Or for as long as my lungs would have allowed it.
