write a feeling -

Write a feeling

I’ve been told

Writing poems

Means speaking my mind

Yet the page is black when I reach for a reason

A feeling

To write about

My friends said

“Sad”

Or

“Depressing”

Which is ironic because 

All my poetry has that mood

Urgh 

Stupid mood

Theme

Feeling

Tone

ELA has possessed my mind

But back to my poem

What to write?

If I told you that I had an idea

What would you say?

Would you call it too dark?

Call it detached?

Maybe it'd help if I wrote from 3rd person

She pondered

And wondered

Wishing she could write a gorgeous tragedy

Something to linger on her reader’s minds

If she could impersonate her favorite characters

To write about sadness

Did that make more sense?

Now I'm confused

Does writing about others make more sense to you?

And who is you?

Is it really me?

Maybe I'm just imagining that it's another person

Cuz if I wrote what comes to mind when I think of sad,

Would anyone really want to read it at all?