Feeling Emotions

Expressing Feelings

Is

What It Is

-

My Most Intense Feelings

Are Not — safe to Expose

Not

Because — Literally

That’s What They are

-

But Rather

-

Because

I grew up

In a World

Where

Intellect and Learning

Only

Were the Reality

within My Family

The Only Permissable

Emotion

Was the Anger

of my Father

-

My Tears

Weren’t Ever There

There was No One

to Be — with

In Them

-

Today

I try to grow

Learning from my past

Experiencing

My Present Moments

as Deeply

as I can

-

In this Path

When I Blunder

Causing Pain