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Balance sheet: Emotions
Feeling everything and nothing
Angry at the world for turning
Thrilled at blood-red sunsets
Soothed by peaceful candle flames
Irritated that people bitch about hair
Happy at the music of spring peepers
Perplexed at weird grocery shortages
Hurt by ghosts that come and go
Joyful at the sight of woodpeckers
Discouraged by an inability to home-make
Proud of my offspring's talents
Scared of depression looming
Grieved…
Horrified…
Distressed…
Gutted….
At 23 lives lost
(if you count the one that
hadn't even begun yet)
Too many feelings
cancel out, add up to
Numb
Angry at the world for turning
Thrilled at blood-red sunsets
Soothed by peaceful candle flames
Irritated that people bitch about hair
Happy at the music of spring peepers
Perplexed at weird grocery shortages
Hurt by ghosts that come and go
Joyful at the sight of woodpeckers
Discouraged by an inability to home-make
Proud of my offspring's talents
Scared of depression looming
Grieved…
Horrified…
Distressed…
Gutted….
At 23 lives lost
(if you count the one that
hadn't even begun yet)
Too many feelings
cancel out, add up to
Numb
Published 22nd Apr 2020
Author's Note
I don't think it can really even be called a poem.
Whatever, I'm just really, really tired.
Whatever, I'm just really, really tired.
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22nd Apr 2020 4:28am
22nd Apr 2020 4:35am
22nd Apr 2020 11:20am
Feeling everything at once, or nothing at all... know what you mean. Thanks for sharing this relatable spill... sometimes the feelings just overwhelm.
22nd Apr 2020 6:44pm
It all comes as a flood at times Broken...
Glad You are here with Us-May You and Yours stay and be well
We can gather up our sanity later, what little may be left of it lol
Your Pen always has heart!!!
Glad You are here with Us-May You and Yours stay and be well
We can gather up our sanity later, what little may be left of it lol
Your Pen always has heart!!!
23rd Apr 2020 8:49pm
The most raw, resonant and sonorous truth can emerge from us when we are exhausted, all our walls are down and we lay ourselves bare. This has such a touching candor about it. 💖 I think the technique of it's construction is also well rendered, a clean list of contrasts, all occurring in the living now.
13th May 2020 7:18pm
That incident was an absolute horror in the midst of everything else occuring. I am amazed that you had the ability to write anything coherent at all in the midst of such emotional upheaval. Much less something so succinctly capturing the essence of senselessness amid the counter-balance of nature.
