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feelings tired
confused
tranced
powerless
weak
not really alive anymore

a dead feeling in my heart
but
my brain still works feverishly

stop
please

tired
don't want to think anymore
thinking makes me cry
not again
cried too much today

void of feelings
unfocused eyes, brain
unkempt hair
slow fingers

don't want to face anyone
alone
loneliness comforts me
don't have to smile and pretend to be okay
too tired to be puppet today

cried already
screamed already
angry already
now just

tired
drained

it's no end of the world
yet i'm sad
i'm done crying
still they roll from my eyes

cannot control anything
anymore
just too tired

hope
but a glimmer
confused
should i be hopeful?

am i still me...
big shirt
boxers
air con
tears

tired.

chiiyo's comments :
This was written when I was going through a particularly tough period for me, emotionally. Something was happening to me that I did not want, could not control, and I couldn't even go down fighting. I was depressed, but not suicidal, though at times I felt like hope was non-existent, and other times I did not even dare to hope, for fear that once I did, it would jinx it all, and I would fall even further. From that period, I've only chosen to show this poem, because I felt it was the most representative. It reminds me a bit of the rambling poems I used to write, but a bit more affected, a bit more intense, a bit more real. I wasn't rambling about some philosophical subject, I was simply writing down thoughts, feelings, images, that came into my mind.



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