All That Consumes Us

by Erica Waters

I’m no one and nothing, a person so lonely I’m imagining a dead girl reaching out to me.

I’m not sure I can ever be more than a small, lonely creature grasping at the edges of dreams too big for me.

“So many of the people who achieve success in this world only do so because of who their parents are, because they are privileged, because the world expects them to be successful. Then there are ones like you. You claw your way up to places where others have been lifted.