Dear Medusa…

I wonder…

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A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood

Dear Medusa,

Today I learned that Jellyfish are named after you, and I fell in love with jellyfish for the first time.

I wonder, did she turn your beautiful hair into snakes as punishment to cause other’s to fear you and thus abandon you, or more to cause you to live in fear from them thereafter?…

I wonder, did he even just for one second allow the truth of his violation against you, his destruction of you, to come into the forefront of his selfish mind?…

I wonder, did you regret using your words after you told how he had hunted and harmed you in such a horrid way, but then you were the one she wrought such vengeance upon?…

I hope you know that these days, too many eons too late to save you, we see what happened to you and call it what it was — a rape, a vicious attack on a victim who dared speak out, and a silencing of that victim before she could speak out again.

We hear your words.

And we mourn that the power of them was turned against you instead of used to help you heal.

Thank you for reading.❤

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