Why is it hard to accept emotions? Why do

we twist them into shapes they are not?


They only re-form the shape in which

they’re born when we’re not looking.


Why deny, resist and list them instead of

letting them rest inside our bodies


What am I scared of? That I’ll die of

discomfort or that they’ll last forever?


20 seconds.


Apparently that’s how long

it takes for an emotion to be felt

We store them in boxes called illness

and backache, instead of letting them


move so they can take up space to

one day eventually—poof—evaporate


Their purpose is to move, be felt

as energy in motion.


We don’t choose their arrival

But we choose our response, so we might

as well greet them and treat them like friends.