Your Future Is Starving For You ©Dawn Minott

On By Dawn MinottIn Poetry
This post was inspired by this piece—“Alter Ego”—painted by Nigerian artist Millicent Osumuo and is part of my home gallery!

She woke to the sound of hunger.

Not her stomach, but something deeper, a low growl echoing through her chest. It wasn’t today’s hunger. It was tomorrow’s.

She heard it as she stared at her reflection in the mirror, saw it in her reflection’s eyes—eyes that seemed older, wiser, but hollowed by want.

Her future self was staring back at her, lips cracked, whispering: “I am starving.”

“For what?” she asked aloud.

The reflection’s voice echoed in her soul:

“For you.

For the version of you that stops shrinking, hiding, performing.

For the you that speaks when her heart surges, that risks when her spirit burns.

For the you that stops waiting for permission.

For the version of you that is yourself—fully you.”

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