What's the Point in Feeling?
Feelings are portals to realms of memory
Shadows of the divine
They are mystical personal electric currents
Echoes from an experience in time
Attention seeking; they beg us to see
The nature of our reality
Like smoke from a fire burning so deep
Chanting from depths of eternity
Disturbing and vulgar though they can be
Placed in the center of thought
How trifling they are for all who can feel
What it's like for them to go dark
But what joy it is when in their good graces!
So good I just can't explain
Revealing reasons for this existence
Finding beauty in the pain
Reverberations of every experience
I'm conscious to feel it all
Revelations of thought like scrolls of a story
That reads on and on and on
But feelings are only along for the ride
As sidekick to myself
I see with an eye that they are not I
They're simply there to be felt
Without the carousel of changing feelings
Without the love and hate
I'd be free from all that pulls at my heart
And the chaos it creates
But without feelings I'd surely be lost
Confused in a cold dead land
Perhaps, the point of this human cost
Is a chance to understand
About this poem
Was driving down the road when the first line came to me. I edited it quite a bit in the past week.
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Submitted by Risingwerdz on November 28, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,116 |
Words | 216 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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