Vase

Do you know those images of optical illusions? One is a vase where the outlines of the vase creates two faces looking at each other, formed by the empty space.

The world keeps pushing me and pushing me until I feel like I can take no more

But all that pushing also forms the outlines of me and you

I feel that the world is a vase, a hard and rigid and fragile thing

And we are the empty space around it

That no one can touch or destroy

even when we don’t exist at all

But we always had been