Keep My Thoughts Inside

Would you be embarrassed to know

How many thoughts I have spilled over you--

Creating futures,

Reliving pasts,

Thinking over and over again,

“I like you.

I hate how much I like you.”

You've twisted yourself into every

Crevice of my brain.

In thirty minutes I am triggered

Thirty times, jolted into you.

It's all I can do

To scoop up these scattering thoughts,

Cramming them back inside

And stitching my mouth shut.

I don't want you to know

That you are more to me than
I could ever be to you.

Reviews

[DeCipher]

This is actually very sad. When you feel so much for someone and you don't get the same from them, it's VERY tough!

[SeekingMeaning]

It IS sad. It's too bad we aren't all equipped with emotional off-switches. Although that would probably be worse for everyone. At least there is poetry through which we can express the things we can't say in person.

[Distant horizons]

Powerful write, encompassing all those thoughts that we wish had an off switch, yet keep coming. Thanks for sharing.