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Articulation of the Void

S.E. Bourne
1 min readNov 5, 2022

*borrowed language

The scapegoat sees what others do not, and from this lens, they name things and go back to the evidence to state facts as they are.

The scapegoat will then be crushed into emotional or social breakdowns as they seek to contain the dynamic that bullies them.

Their regulation will run like a low battery, and they either collapse and absorb as they are constantly looted of their talents and energy…. or they individuate

Go as good as no contact, and become the family member who gains full integrity and autonomy.

They have a similar experience as desert monks or Celtic saints set out in Atlantic outposts. Set out into the voids.

The daemon attacks, they wrestle with their worse self, their ego is stripped, and they purify themselves to break free to a higher-ordered consciousness.

It is a perilous pilgrimage — a brutally cruel inheritance, but the rock bottom holds emotional reward and spiritual graces.

I have been 51 years in the void, and now, now the void I will claim as mine.

No more awkwardness about it. The void is my hard-won reward.

Fates, trials, tribulations. . .

Each has its own. All that can be done is to articulate it . . .

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S.E. Bourne
S.E. Bourne

Written by S.E. Bourne

“If this is all I get, I will take it.” *S.E. Bourne

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