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The girl gets up each day and creates herself out of cloth and paint. She writes at night about men who looked, and boys who touched, and weight. The writing is never enough. Confession is insufficient. Absolution never comes in the articulation, only in the penance. She thinks of the saints: their bed of nails, their centuries-late apologies for Eve who doomed all women to the pains of the flesh by giving in to the pleasures of the forbidden. They lacerate their own skin for Eve, for the sins of the world which they shoulder as their own. They wear religious paraphenalia, or razors next to their bodies.
She reads into the saints. The saints? The anorexics who, in their holy asceticism, insisted that God was telling them to starve. She considers God. She determines, if they were on speaking terms, he would tell her to starve for general sins. She wills herself to rise above the flesh: not food, not sex, not touch, not sleep...the insomnia gives rise to mania, a racing of thoughts and sadistically vivid images flashing in the brain. The thoughts spiral upward, whitling shrill as a teakettle screaming inside the brain.
While the idea was planted in her mind, a haunting past revives itself. Confusion presents idealistic probabilities through ages of lies and repitition. What is so wrong with silence? The sound of sheer silence is not a void. Visual noise. Stillness, holiness, redemption through sacrifice. Trying to make an effort all the while feeding her addiction to Jesus. She wants a tangible, realistic value in her hands. She wants noise that sound like meaning, a vaccum there for silence. Testify.
It's going to be judgement day in the hall of fire and brimstone, and it's going to melt silence like her thoughts down the metaphorical canvas. She's going to use every literary device possible to settle in on her offer. And while it may take an unecessary amount of time to record pure innocence in the deep of the forest, there will always be one more quieter, one more better, one more weightless.

Acceptance of her sins led her to believe it was time to say goodbye. And the usual insanity floats.
©2005-2009 ~timrkey
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last night at youth group, Steve was discussing Silence, and it's importance. it just got me thinking. so then he was going on about how if we can't be silent, you know, fasting is good. and I know I've read a lot of biblical stuff about fasting and it's seemingly brilliant effects.

talk about self discipline.

and Steve told us about...yeah somewhere in the bible, Elijah was called to the mountain to see God. and he was all "let me listen for him" so he listens in the wind, and he listens in the earthquake, and he listens in the fire on the volcano. so out of all this noise, he can't hear God. and finally he realizes, it's all in the silence, that God was there in the silence the whole time as opposed to the noise he surrounded himself with. & that was Steve's whole point of the night. clear the noise, bring the silence.

Yahweh tells Elijah to exit his cave and stand on the mountain as Yahweh passes by. Elijah hears but remains in his hiding place. There is a great wind (strong enough to split mountains and break rocks into pieces) but Yahweh is not in the wind. There is an earthquake, but Yahweh is not in the earthquake. After the earthquake there is a fire, but Yahweh is not in the fire. Finally, there is what the New Revised Version translates as “a sound of sheer silence.” Only then does Elijah wrap his face in his mantle and come to the mouth of the cave. [Yaweh is another name for God]


sometimes I really wish I were into God the way all those kids at EBC are, but I can't get there.

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:iconi-am-jack:
nuns used to wear thorns under their clothing for self sacrifice. thank chuck palahniuk for that bit of seemingly useless info.

anyway, i love this. the screenshot is cool too.

good job emily conrad.

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good to know that if i ever need attention, all i have to do is die. - brand new.
:icongbisus13:
heh, Yahweh, interesting word, its orriginally the letters YHWH and was the first ever unspeakable four letter word, because to say the lords true name is to take it in vain, breaking commandment #3, and so the orthodox jews (that is the language from which YHWH comes) still wont say Yahweh, tho they recognize it as his name, instead they say god or the lord... anyways, i had to add to the evenings trivia offerings, thank you wikipedia.

interesting writing, and you really capture a theme, and I'd like to ask, why the obsession with weight loss? it's in almost every one of your works, and frankly, you really dont need to be fasting, you are quite beautiful and not fat, and for the record, skin and bones isnt the ultimate beauty either, so dont do that.

just thought id speak on what i see, cheers!

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-Dream as if you'll live forever.
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-Someday you'll get it right.
:iconportraitofporcelian:
interesting. keen. i havent been to church in forever.

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:iconportraitofporcelian:
interesting. keen. i havent been to church in forever.

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if you walk away, i'll walk away.
:iconladyindistress:
I think I like this, but I'm not sure.

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I am merely human.
:iconk83001:
I like this...
It says such alot.
And also, in response to your final comment -
I dont know what EBC is, some religious group? I'm a Christian, and I used to just go around saying it but not living it.
The important thing to remember is that
God cannot love you any more or any less than he already does. Nothing you can do will change his opinion of you. He will always love you. You will make mistakes, you will want forgiveness to bring you closer to him perhaps. But when people say they've grown away from God its not Got who moved.
If you want to be 'into God' it should come from within yourself. Your own person relationship with the Father needs to evolve and it will always be increasing and getting better.
If you like we can chat about it? If you need someone to talk to perhaps?

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Almighty God, in every way, you are above and beyond understanding.
:iconperfectlypunnq:
I really like this.

and yeah I can never quite get there with the god stuff either. even though I can't say that I particularly wish/want to...

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take me away...
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Just listened to : Stay With Me by Clint Mansell...
and going through your work...
reflection is the best word to describe the mood it got me into...
maybe because i could find so much of myself in this little piece...
my insanity is still there though...
just a thought but maybe i'll try some writing at some point...
well done for you by the way :)
and i will keep my eye on you :P (now you know the reason :) )

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:iconk83001:
reading this again, i think your 'authors comment' is very touching. And I think that is something me and Jen should discuss with our youthgroup. Thanks :)

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Almighty God, in every way, you are above and beyond understanding.

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