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Like the Bugs
2 min readApr 25, 2025
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Like the Bugs
By Jane Tawel
April 25, 2025
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The mind flits and flirts
like a droning dragonfly.
Like the dinky dragonfly
my thoughts have no fire —
just a big mythical name.
— Nothing to be scared of
— barely should take notice of.
Let dragonfly thoughts land lightly —
then let them fly away.
The space is where
the mind should be.
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Desires are like spiders
crawling around
and creeping up.
But do not squash them as that will only make you feel worse.
Poor desires, they just want to live too.
Gently encourage your desires to spin their webs
without catching you in them.
Webs are dream-catchers, you know?
Let them fill the corners,
but not the main room of your soul.
Then gently encourage the spider-desires
