By Lantern's Light

By Lantern's Light

1. The Cycle - Enter the Ouroboros

Exploring trauma.

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Ifrah Akhtar
Apr 24, 2024
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Auryn - Cover of The Neverending Story (source)

The ouroboros stares up at me from the cover of a book - its eyes jeweled green as it consumes itself. 

And what does it mean to consume oneself? 

To exist in a cycle where your pain and trauma is trapped in the spirals of your DNA - coded to repeat in future generations. I think about this often, as the elde…

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