Maybe by Yulia Tseytlin
‘Life isn’t about what happens to you,’
They say.
But maybe
They say it because
what happened to you
didn’t happen to them.
And if it did,
maybe,
they wouldn’t be saying this shit.
Maybe instead
they would have crawled under their bed,
they would have curled up, staring ahead
with unseeing eyes.
And maybe
they’d stay like that
until they were dead.
But maybe
they wouldn’t have strength
even for that.
They say.
But maybe
They say it because
what happened to you
didn’t happen to them.
And if it did,
maybe,
they wouldn’t be saying this shit.
Maybe instead
they would have crawled under their bed,
they would have curled up, staring ahead
with unseeing eyes.
And maybe
they’d stay like that
until they were dead.
But maybe
they wouldn’t have strength
even for that.
Yulia Tseytlin's Bio:
Yulia Tseytlin is a Russian-Israeli that currently resides in Germany. A Doctor in Economics, she writes literary fiction and poetry. Her prose and poems are published in The Other Side of Hope, Tint, Journal of Expressive Writing, and Spillwords.
Yulia Tseytlin is a Russian-Israeli that currently resides in Germany. A Doctor in Economics, she writes literary fiction and poetry. Her prose and poems are published in The Other Side of Hope, Tint, Journal of Expressive Writing, and Spillwords.
