“How are you feeling?”
A ‘check-in’, one word.
Name an emotion you might have heard?
Say something, say anything
Anything at all.
Just try, and try harder, to break down that wall.

I can’t name it, can’t touch it, can’t hear it or see.
It’s everywhere
Yet nowhere
Full and empty.

I yearn to scream and to cry,
Not just inside.
But I can’t let it out,
I’m too terrified.

Of what I don’t know?
It’s part of the fear.

I’ll explode and I’ll shatter with nobody near
To hold me together,
To rock me to sleep,
To comfort and love me,
The hate is too deep.