The Side She Doesn't Turn
On what shows up only when you stop facing forward.
She always gave people
the front of her face.
Open. Direct. Readable.
The version
built for eye contact,
for being understood
quickly
and without effort.
She called the profile
just an angle.
A photograph thing.
A geometry thing.
It was not just an angle.
It was the version of her
that did not perform.
The one that did not adjust
the moment
someone started looking.
The calm there
was not for anyone.
It was just calm,
existing
because nobody
was asking it
to be anything else.
The moon
does this too.
Shows the world
one face,
permanently,
while the other side
stays unseen,
not hidden,
just never facing
the direction
anyone is looking from.
That side
still has craters.
Still has impact.
Still has history
written into it
the same way
as the side
everyone photographs.
It is not less real
for being
less observed.
She let the moon
sit inside her profile
because something in her
recognized the arrangement —
a whole self,
only part of it
ever facing
the light.
Nobody photographs
what they cannot see.
That does not mean
it isn’t there.
— AËLA
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I liked the image of the moon’s unseen side still carrying its own craters and history. There is something quietly powerful in the idea that a part of us does not become less real simply because it is not the part other people usually get to see.
Your shadow. It’s always behind you, but you only notice it when you turn away from what’s in front of you. 😊