Emotions Container … a poem
Foreword: I’m delighted to welcome back Kim as guest blogger, active subscriber to Dissociative Writers, and facilitator of the daytime Writing-in-Place workshop. Kim is a licensed mental health counselor as well as a person with DID. This post is one of occasional posts by subscribers to DW who share their writing.~ Lyn
by Guest Blogger Kim E.
There are too many
We are too much
Can’t you see
You cannot contain me
Perhaps we don’t need to
Instead we need
To set you free
Lost in space you’ll wander
Energy will dissipate
And eventually you’ll flounder
And find your way back to me
Needing no container
But rather
Perhaps a blanket
Or a warm embrace
You could have asked and received
But you needed the journey
To learn about the path
And what waits at the ending
You struggle even now
Wrangling and flailing
Needing space and time
And that’s all fine
And necessary
Tears will flow
Rage will pound
Pain will scream
Grief will drown
Exhaustion sleep
Safe and sound
Fear will flee, and fight, and flounder
Cradled softly
Beneath my steady gaze
All welcome to wander
Art Credit: “Prism” by Kim E.
So what is this?
A container of sorts
With no walls, no locks
There’s no ceiling, no door
Emotions galore
Within these words
Free to be felt
Even adored
Bringing depth and meaning
A life worth living
In vivid color
Brilliance and being.
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