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Tell You How You Made You

by Nisfish

Published October 6, 2026

12+

In Poetry

Tell you how you made you. 
So well that when it's written here, you feel it somewhere else. 
So well that it must have cost you in and out of you. 
How can you slip away from space to the sea? 
You didn't let the floor ground you to this world. 
Why'd I mind your leave? Have you ever stayed still? 

You can step on it over and over, 
Nobody's gonna look under your skin
Where you have buried all the times before the sun rose to you. 
How can you not feel your heartbeat? 
It has been beating for a long life of it now. 
Enough for thousands of buildings to build. 
Enough for the race to begin. 
I can only adore these things as they have passed, 
when the sky will turn dark, may I still see ‘I'. 

Wait, please do wait, why do you seem that way? 
I'm sorry I keep talking to myself when I tell you, 
How amazed I am to find you among the dark. 
I feel blind as if rose vines poked my eyes. 
How bruised I became, why should I not explain? 
Please do wait, or else— 
How will I meet you after the waves have swept you away? 

Rocking with the tides, you have grown eye's'. 
Have you drunk the core of pain? 
Have you had the mount of bliss? 
Have you gone this way, up the tower, 
To feel on your knees let the brush clean your crease. 
Show me how you see this. 

To speak to you when you follow, 
While the hours strike right. 
It's like picking a rag doll by the underarm carefully. 
But if you don't let me, I can never pick up a heart
Off the window you gaze towards. 
Do you like shiny glass from your ocean heart? 

And I'll tell you again, my rag doll, please listen, 
I have dreamed of a worm who sat near the window
To watch the flashy lights as they go. 
The other day, it tore away its wiggly body, 
To touch that sky through wings. 
That makes me wonder if you did the same, 
For the way your eyes fell on the sky. 

Why'd I mind your leave? You have never stayed still. 
You'll leave, you will. 
I'll leave, I will. 
This place can change like us, but only if you remember we can live twice. 
I fear you will let one memory take your life. 
You were here for other things. 
That's why I won't mind your leave. 

When you came here, didn't you think? 
You met the heart of Earth, 
With the one you carry. 
Please let it sweep you away, seize the day. 
I beg myself too, for I drank all the pain, 
Not to lay them plain inside a cage. 

‘You’; only letters that can be anybody. 
It's okay for it holds you wherever you leave. 
I care for the warmth, even though I don't act like it. 
I know I want them to bounce free. 
To the only burn I love when my eyes are blind, 
I look for you in the dark. 

You have never stayed still, so I won't mind your leave. 

Tell you how you made you. 

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Sladesheppard wrote a review Review · Oct 6

I really liked this.The thing that threw me off was the picture in the middle of it.
My favorite lines probably are

"When you came here, didn't you think?
You met the heart of Earth,
With the one you carry."
These lines are confusing to me which I like.
The other lines that really stood out to me was

"So well that when it's written here, you feel it somewhere else.
So well that it must have cost you in and out of you."
I'm trying to tell the meaning but at the same time I enjoy not knowing the meaning.
I hope to read more of your poetry

Nisfish replied · Oct 10

Thank you very much for the feedback! It's on how a person's made.



Anne felt that life was really not worth living without puffed sleeves.
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables