God Themselves Quotes

“life did not begin with
two people, but none,
so without us will continue.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“prince

people will mention the loss.
I want to
point out this moment--
my son, hip-tall, missing teeth,
planted a peony seed
in our garden. I'd explained our
predicament before how soon
we will drop, peacefully, like
paw paw & maw maw
& that's alright. I
prepared to remind him, he then said
it doesn't need me here to grow. so we
populated our small land with the rest
of our life. when he went, I
placed him with god
among the seeds.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“knix

psalm for the people:
when I say we, I mean those who
knew the true cost
of living. we are, all of us,
wretched for reasons
we can't control, though our
psyches say we must try to pilot
our lives. I grieve even the least
honest of us, who, though not absolved,
were products of the expectations
gnawing at their necks. by god, we rioted,
we slept, we succumbed to
wrought divisions, we
were ambitious, foolishly tracking
hours as if we
could ever know the time.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“lianne

look, here's the truth.
everyone acts so resigned. if you
listen, you can hear
the heartache. even those who
long for the world to end
don't want it so. they want
liberation. they want people
to touch them & their
lives to mean something.
no one gains peace from
loveless silence. god?
god is
laughing at us. I am angry
& unafraid to admit I've
lost so much & no,
it never gets easier to lose.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“karla

candlelight. after the end
is a return to the beginning.
chronologically, it goes--
in terms of loss-- electricity,
cars, decorum. we saw the end
of law, a glimpse of
care for others, everyone
fed & without luxury,
comforted, for a moment,
by sameness, if birds are here, they're
keeping quiet, watching us
perish. we
kept our word, lit candles,
pulled our
kin
close.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“chance

change doesn't happen overnight
'til it does. we think we got
choices, right? ma used to say to me
you end up where you
choose to be. who chose for me
to exist? not me, never got the
chance to choose not to work, to travel,
to spend my
childhood a child.
I can't control all that's
changed on me, just my response
to it & now look. you think all
change is by god? or do we
say that cuz we don't have a
choice?
hm?”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“hunny

here, they'll ban guns
soon as the person
holding one looks like us. hm,
what would you do if you
had the money you needed?
I ate. ate till
hunger forgot me. I'd been
so long away from full it
hurt. we wanted to be
satisfied, that's what people
hunt for, not blood. something
that feels right.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“parents, like any god, speak in parables. bad girls end up dead or on the streets. they do not mention who killed them, who closed their doors.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“you say yes, you don't have much space to take up
anyway. it is before the iPhone & you only have 200 texts a month to use sparingly. you make each one count so as not to spark a back & forth you'd have to pay for. never I feel only yes okay sorry. all arguments cost you something.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“much like the moon, I demand
admiration. you cannot handle
me in full, so you try
to break me into pieces.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“I.
everything in my room is
on the floor
some days you'll find me there too
making angels in the clutter
surrounded by Snickers wrappers &left socks
some days
I think I am an angel
most days
clutter
taking up space mainly because
I still want to be here
but can't seem to pick myself up”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“crooked glasses & acne scars, My mother asks me if
not wearing makeup is my own personal rebellion. truth is, I forget I'm not as invisible as I'm treated.”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves

“you are late but should still go, a consideration
of rebellion, you are tired of the same old shoulds, you hate the
part where you must grin & pretend about your weekend
being phenomenal & necessary, of course it's necessary, it's
a facade of rest, a thing you need & cannot do, a thin thin
thread of responsibility disturbs you, there will be many fires
if you do not join the call, except that's just a metaphor, in
fact, nothing will burn, absolutely nothing, so you should
have a second piece of toast, you should take your time &
grab the peanut butter, you should brew a pot of the coffee
you got from out of state, you should sip it, remember
yourself”
― Jae Nichelle, God Themselves