Feelings Rush In

I participated in a workshop with the amazing Rebekah Taussig over the weekend and wrote this poem. Rebekah is the author of the book, Sitting Pretty. You should check it out!

Emotions like water running fast

Save me life raft

True to the deepest core

I feel so much more than most.

Speak to me 

And you will see

That I have so much substance

What I need

Without a doubt

Is to get my feelings out

In the open

To be heard

Understood

Figured out

When these feelings are sorted through 

I have some way to erase my doubt 

That I am heard 

When I shout

For my worth to be seen

Pity makes my soul weep

For you and for me

Life is – in my shoes –

Paced differently

Can we align

To work together 

For more understanding?

For when we understand what the other needs

Great things unfold, naturally