Emotional Bundle

Aren’t we all just a package of endless emotions?

Angry

The anger peaks and I fall down,

forever saying sorry

for rash mistakes

and brutal comments.

I never say the right thing

for others to understand me.

Fear

I stop and can’t breathe

All the memories surround me.

Suffocating.

Success

The education system is a funny thing

rewarding people for being hermits

and rope strings you can tie

into whatever shape you want.

Maybe someday I’ll understand the meaning

of all this.

Crazy

Self-doubt lingers

and I am paranoid,

Why would anyone like me?

Strong

Inevitable mortality waits

for those who think we are strong

But I keep running, swimming, dancing,

playing, learning, striving

and we all go on.

Tough

Is a way to say strong

but instead of coming from practice,

it comes from bad experience.

Weak

Tired, painful nights

keep me awake

while you lay sleeping

And I need you.

Blunt

Again, with the anger

I care too much

Say too much

Cry too much

If you don’t want to know the truth

Don’t ask

Forgettable

My memory is too powerful

for I remember your faces

after only once meeting

And yet when I greet you

there is nothing

but a vacant

false look ahead

as if

you have somewhere else to be

Mistakable

Do I know you?

I know your name is Lindsey,

tell me your name is Lindsey.

Weird

Anomaly, freak, stranger

Tic-toc

Walk

Keep moving,

she might see us.

Love

Fleeting, exciting, strange

never in the form

expected

Funny

You told me I wasn’t

but who’s laughing now?

Grief

One too many funerals

as a child

I went,

and only once,

did I touch

the cold hand

of death.

But I had to,

I just had to

feel your hand

in mine, again.

It was no longer yours

cold, stiff, and rigid

not soft, warm, and inviting

like I remembered.

Wonder

Never taking for granted

the fleeting moments

we have here

on Earth.

Life is learned

through loss.

Curiosity is born

when you see

the clock

running

out.