Naming The Unknown Feelings
A poem about complicated human emotions
that feeling swirled around me
like a snake climbing a tree
it had a mysterious power over me
similar to my first love when I sixteen
I didn’t know what to call it or call them
it was the color of dusk leaving its realm
it was the mood between gloom
indecisiveness and prolonged underwhelm
a lost soul looking for a home
in the wilderness and meadows
like a poet lost in thoughts
thinking about the land across
it was the feeling that makes me feel alive
which often deprive me of a normal life
getting stuck in places that no longer exist
while being home yet feeling like a tourist
it was talking to my future children
when I no longer want to be their mother
it was like playing piano in my head
while trembling to take a step
it was humming songs off the charts
reading books on liberal arts
while committing the crime of thinking…
