denatured

6/7/25 (unedited)
          	
          	Am I becoming a stranger to myself as well as the world? I looked back to find myself now remote in a way I struggle to measure. It feels like the recognition of an absence that was already within me. A bleary, primordial, premature lack. A nothingness disguised within its heaviness. A labyrinth into void. The past 25 years, a bleary veil. It's not an ego death because the ego never matured, and now it strains against (quicksand/a heavy current). I am coming to identify (identify with? merge with?) the me that was never meant to be born. Like I've just brushed my fingers against this fundamental split between the me that should've died in birth, and the me that was pulled out unnaturally, upside down + twisted + premature.

denatured

6/7/25 (unedited)
          
          Am I becoming a stranger to myself as well as the world? I looked back to find myself now remote in a way I struggle to measure. It feels like the recognition of an absence that was already within me. A bleary, primordial, premature lack. A nothingness disguised within its heaviness. A labyrinth into void. The past 25 years, a bleary veil. It's not an ego death because the ego never matured, and now it strains against (quicksand/a heavy current). I am coming to identify (identify with? merge with?) the me that was never meant to be born. Like I've just brushed my fingers against this fundamental split between the me that should've died in birth, and the me that was pulled out unnaturally, upside down + twisted + premature.