Being Brilliant
-I could have been brilliant, perhaps, if I had been born during the solstice of a different moon, if my mother had not been plagued by the thought of aborting me- unable to face another miscarriage, if my father had been sober- when they decided to try again, if all ties with the ethereal had been severed- when I was placed in human flesh, if I didn’t yearn for what I was- when I was born, if the catastrophes of life were swept away-undone. I could have been brilliant, if I was meant to be just that, if the jagged […]