character studies

#1: as soon as you were born, you were bundled in a nest of joy, the arms of living ancestors cradled you to sleep. your face retains the shape of innocence, your cheeks rosy and full from smiling too much. you are quick to laugh, although your brows betray your volatile temper (one can easily imagine that you are no stranger to tantrums). your curiosity can easily be mistaken for silence, but your eyes shine with eager involvement. you hold your body like a child whose father held her, as a baby, in one all-encompassing palm, and gently stroked her face with another. in short, you look like one who has known love.

#2: often your voice sounds as if it is breaking. your hands chip away things, a nervous habit. you seem to set yourself up to be broken.


* I will come back to these.