The Unexamined Soul

This poem is rather incomplete and I do not believe I will be able to finish it due to my lack of inspiration to do so. Please comment your brutally honest opinions, as they can only make me better!TY

I had this fear since I was a little girl,

That I was never to find life's holy secrets,

And every time I strived, so far the truth stood from me

But just how worthless could this life really be?

I wondered, pondered why I couldn't feel

The things that other used to heal

All the misfortunes that seemed to be so real

I had ideas that could shake the world upside down

Yet no emotion to bring change in this small town

I let years pass me by

I let fear take over

I let others take the lead

And all because I thought

I had nothing to give after all,

To live a life full of fear that I never knew real emotions 

Passing through my human soul

And at the end 

Depart this cold hearted world

Not settled, nor with peace in my heart

Still lurking in the shadows of the life of my unexamined soul.

Reviews

[RannunculusBlooms]

im blown away by this. it deeply resonated with me as someone who has grown up in a religion but has trouble really resonating with it. you write beautifully and with so much emotion!

[Poetic License]

"To live a life full of fear that I never knew real emotions
Passing through my human soul
And at the end
Depart this cold hearted world
Not settled, nor with peace in my heart
Still lurking in the shadows of the life of my unexamined soul."

Wow. Just wow. I am blown away. This is so sad, so powerful and, unfortunately, so relate-able. It is indeed hard to step back into feeling, back into life as others know it when you've hidden yourself away so very long in the darkest reaches of yourself.