Arts 

Just a Waver

March 1, 2017March 1, 2017 BeNjamyn Upshaw-Ruffner BeN, emotion, homonym, Poetry

If you can read this

Then you can’t

You aren’t allowed

To be more than an ant.

 

Treacherous tiny traps

lock you away

Within the earth

Where you will stay.

 

Flicker

Falter

Twinkle

Tremble

 

Footsteps approach

Pitter patter

Palpitating dirt

Thinking minds shatter.

 

When you were young

These were but dreams

Stop thinking now

It is never as it seems.

Written By: BeNjamyn Upshaw-Ruffner

About The Author

BeNjamyn Upshaw-Ruffner Former Editor-in-Chief “I’ll never know everything about anything, but I’d like to know something about everything.” - BeN/Isaac BeN is the former Editor in Chief of The Insider, now an alumni contrbutor. An embodiment of the duality between Rational and Emotional thought, this universe’s version of BeN is presumed to be a human living on PNF-404 prior to the planet’s sixth mass extinction. In the currently observed timeline, he is born in a Quebec, Canada during the information age. He is very skilled at utilizing the English language, alongside philosophical ideas, as a means to an end. However, he doesn’t seem to have any tangible goal. Everything he seeks is very abstract. He often implies that the entirety of everything is itself a work of art being consumed in some unfathomable way. I am Isaac Dinotno, the name he has given to the voice in his mind. He and I are in perpetual communication. BeN claims to have experienced astral projection during peak emotional periods of his life, though I can’t verify this. If you are reading this now, you can find BeN at Concordia University.

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