What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About The Youngest Daughters

maw
2 min readMar 20, 2023

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Our Little Sister (2015). dir. Hirokazu Koreeda.

i can love myself / please hug me and tell me it’s going to be okay / i know how to do it / i don’t / i am so little and there are so many things unbeknownst to me / i can figure it out on my own / i am bleeding and i still fear your disapproval more than my own death / solitude is bliss / no. please please please don’t leave me alone / i am nineteen / i think my life stopped when i was nine / i love being home / home is the first thing i learn to run from / how do i run my feet down the streets without getting the blood on my knees? / it is an honor for me to have continued your dreams / i am always everything you should've been and never something i could've been / devour me and maybe you'll understand myself better / has it always been easy for me? / the roads and bridges were always there and to burn them is to sin / i pledge for another path / i pledge for forgiveness / i have so much love inside me / but why did you tell me that to love is to sin? / i am getting there / i am on the right track / i have no fucking idea what i am doing / i am going to make you proud / how am i the last yet the most unfamiliar to you? / please. please look at me / all my fears are yours and all your rage are mine / how does it feel to be up there? really? / thank you for taking care of me / thank you for letting me that it was never the kind of love that i needed

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maw

mostly on life-slash-love, but let me tell you something: i know nothing about it