I’m Neither As Loud or as Quiet As You Think

a poem

Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
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Published in
2 min readJun 18, 2022

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Photo by Alena Jarrett on Unsplash

Absent
the window,
peering out,
but also peering in,
I become myself,
with all the vibrant, loud colours,
unafraid of being quite
too loud to hurt someone else,
simply vibrating the sounds
that emanates from within.

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Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)
ILLUMINATION

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