a letter to a wolf that calls itself a boy:
a letter to wolf that calls itself a boy:
sometimes I wonder if the shiny people you’ve met in college have begun to question your large teeth and hungry demeanor.
the way I never did.
sometimes
I think about how I fit you perfectly back then. you took up the entirety of any room you were in. and I made myself so immeasurably small next to you.
sometimes
I think about what I would say to you now. over the years I have only collected words of hate for you. with the strength and knowledge I’ve gained I’ve begun to see you for what you were all along.
sometimes I wish you could see me for what I have made myself now.
the long hair you once loved is buzzed off.
my body now scattered with tattoos.
I now hold myself with a confidence that should strike fear in bloody wolves like you.
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Great use of epistolary and of extended metaphor!
I love this
Wow, this is powerful.
Especially:
“and I made myself so immeasurably small next to you.”
I felt this, viscerally… love the echoing “sometimes” throughout.
I love how you reflect the complete change when you mis-step the reader by choosing “scattered” instead of “scarred”. Really demonstrates the essential nature change (and works sooo much better with “tattoo”!
The repeated but removed ‘sometimes’ gives such a nice flow to the piece. I’m also in love with the title.
Title caught me and drew me in strengthened by the epistolary form.
Love: I now hold myself with a confidence that should strike fear in bloody wolves like you.