Emotion

A poem about emotions, a bit of a depressing one now that I'm reading it back, just flowed out of my mind, may as well post it.

Grief

Loss

Love

Happiness

Sadness

Depression

Crippling loneliness

Happiness in distant memories

Only remember it in the distant past

Before the deaths

Stereotypes limiting emotional outputs

Men shouldn't cry

Women always cry

The stages of grief make me sick

Each and every person goes through grief differently

Stereotypes and social norms limit mental health for all

Damned virus limiting support at the moment

Men can cry

Let emotions out

Don't hold back

Cry alone if you worry

I do often

Thinking of grief

Even if tears dont fall

I still cry for loss

In the back of my mind it tells me

No don't cry

Man up

Social norms ignorance it is

Men cry

Just as women sometimes don't

Depends on the person

The heart inside

We live only once

We must make the best of it

Limited time

Never realize how limited till it's gone

I'm done with worry

Done with stereotypes

They're ignorant

Limiting

Harming

I'm done with them

I will cry on my own

Cry about lost time with lost loved ones

Cry thinking back at the good times before my family fell apart

Before everyone died

Emotions are healthy

No one can or should tell you different

Let out emotions

Bottling them up are useless

I frequently do

Try to put on a face for loved ones

The few that are left

I frequently do

Sometimes its required

But not always

Not as much as I do

Let emotions run free

Flow free like a river

Like a river of emotions

Remember the good times

Before restrictive masks

When I could breath going into a store

Before my family died

Emotions bottled inside

I'm finished with it

I'm content with letting go of stereotypes and restrictions of the such

I'm content to let my emotions flow free

Author's Note

Any comments are welcomed. :)

Reviews

[Audie G. Couch]

This poem is mind blowing, and I can relate to it.
Just the other day I had to deal with stereotypes that came from a person who is ignorant. Filled with heteronormative ideals, this individual did not get me; let alone, see me for who I really am. As a bisexual woman who is not a "girly girl" I face such things (stereotypes/ social norms) on a regular basis.
Very good work.

[John the Baptist]

Please do not allow this one to fall into the hands of anyone who is even moderately depressed. I felt my heart sinking as I read it. Now I need a glass of wine.