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Poem Collection - MythOfHappiness - 12. Calm

I breathe

Slowly and steadily

I am calm

I am always calm

Always

 

You come into the room

Or rather, You

That fictionalized You

In my head

Is someone else entirely

 

They’ve got me pushed up against the wall

They think they’ve scared me

And I let them think that

Because I don’t want to scare

You

 

In my head You recognize me

In my head You’re brave

In my head You run to us

In my head You save me

In my head

 

But out there,

With all of them

Those ugly bastards who don’t understand

Who don’t want to understand

You turn and walk away

 

Unlike them, I do understand

I understand why You run

I understand why You leave me with them

To be eaten by these men with hungry eyes and empty chests

I understand

 

You’re a person

And you’re scared

I understand

But I don’t empathize

I am calm

 

The one on the left pushes me

The one on the right slams me back into the wall

The one in the middle punches me

I double over in pain

But not fear

 

Middle bends over me and I smile

“The fuck’s so funny jackass?”

Then I laugh

I’m feeling something

Something… real

 

For the first time

in a long, long time

I can feel

I am not calm

I am angry

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Fascinating. I'm torn still - after having read this three times - on who the You is.... Part of me wants to believe this poem fits in the ongoing narrative, and the You is the boy who's a jock bully here. Part of me thinks the You is an alter ego of the boy under attack. In the second scenario, the sudden rise of anger is very interesting because it means anger at the self for running away. Fascinating work, and it bears your incredible talent for storytelling in verse. Super well done :) And I like to be challenged by poems 

 

 

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Powerful! Your thoughts and observations show quite a maturity for your age. Puts you ahead of the game. That's a compliment, not condescending.

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