To Feel

 
How funny a feeling it is
When one moment 
I can feel every movement 
Of the world 
Of our earth 
As it spins on it's axis
Tilted all 23.5 degrees
I can feel the pain
In the hearts of every sister 
And the joy on the lips of every wife
I can feel love pouring out of the television
And my favorite book
And emotion seeping through the ground into the soles of my feet as I walk
I can feel the excitement in every hand that I shake
The disappointment in every passerby in every car on the road
My soul aches and pulls and burns inside of me 
In the place just beside my heart 
In the middle of my chest
How can everything go numb? 
How can my eyes glass over
And my ears go dull
And the spot in my chest cease to ache
Cease to even exist?
But suddenly it does
And all I can feel is emptiness 
And anger
For anger is the emotion of emptiness
And the only thing that I can do is cry 
And feel the hands on my body
Moving in comforting strokes and presses
But they mean nothing
Because I feel nothing
Looking into the eyes of the person that I love
The eyes I've given all of myself to
And feeling only a hollow pang
Where I have always felt an overwhelming surge of happiness 
But to fall asleep in those arms 
And see my pain-but not my affliction-
Reflected back at me in those eyes
Both before I drift away 
And once I resurface
Is the only remedy I need
To cure my ailment 
And feel the joy of a soul overrun with emotion 
 

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