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resisting gravity

resisting gravity

– Poetry by Amy Mabey –

the weight
of emptiness,
deceptive.
fat weighs less
than depression, but has
greater volume, filling
the space between
id and ego,
gelatinous
buffer against world.

oh, to be
weightless.
floating free.
rising, not sinking
in fathomless depths.
ascending to ether,
unencumbered.
unladen
by burdens
of being.

About the Author – Amy Mabey
Amy Mabey

By night, Amy Mabey is a silver-tressed southerner attending The Ohio State University where she is majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. Her favorite genres are Creative Nonfiction and Poetry. She also flirts with philosophy, music and art on the side. By day, she works in Patient Access at The James Comprehensive Cancer Center at Ohio State. She would love for those two worlds to collide one day in a Creative Writing Therapy program for her oncology patients at The James. Till then, she will continue to write and attend school in hopes to make her dreams a reality.

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