FEELINGS

Tossing, turning, restless night
Sensing, knowing, keen insight
Aching, breaking, heart like glass
Praying for the pain to pass

Intense feelings, little hope
Must sort out, so I can cope
Which are absorbed? Which are mine? 
Search my soul, find blurred line

Strong emotions rise and grow
tears well up and overflow
Seek more answers, do the math
Such is life for this Empath

Reviews

[emmajoy]

How hard it is to shake off another person's pain and stress. If entrusted with something so fragile, it becomes a burden one needs to share. Your meter in the poem is very fine but must have caused its own stress, maybe. You had to do justice to you own deep feelings. Perhaps.

Grand to see you here.. so hope you're able to stay a while.

[Ellen Hammond]

Thanks Emma! Nice of you to drop by. It didn't cause me stress but actually relieved some of it, to write this poem. It is indeed hard to shake off another's pain, be it emotional or physical. I have always tended to absorb such and didn't realize that not everyone does so until my family doctor put a name to it, years ago, by telling me I am an empath and explaining what that meant. At that time I had gone to him with all the symptoms (even rare ones I hadn't heard of) of congestive heart failure. After putting me through tests he told me to do myself a favor...go home and call everyone I knew until I found out who actually had it. It turned out one of my brothers and an elderly lady who was my best friend, both had it. The symptoms of other people's pain tend to leave me once I find out about it through one of my regular 5 senses. Emotional pain I pick up doesn't always leave like that though, especially if the person is close to me in proximity or relationship. Sometimes it gets really hard to sort out which pains and/or emotions are actually my own. So, after a very hard week, I decided to try to relieve some of it by writing about it.

[emmajoy]

Ellen, I can only hope and pray that knowing more about yourself is a help.. and that even more in some ways, that writing helps the outpourings that swirl about your being. You have a gift that is a blessing to those you 'feel' but you need an outlet, truly do. Please write whatever you can and whenever. If you need to send me a message.. please do. I send you welcome back smiles and gentle hugs. Em.

[Ellen Hammond]

Thank you, my friend.

[emmajoy]

I do mean what's been said, truly.

[Unspoken poet]

WOW!! This is so good, emotional as well

[Ellen Hammond]

Thank you. I was feeling overwhelmed with emotions when I wrote it. As an empath, I find it hard at times to sort out which emotion are my own from those I tend to absorb from others.

[Zoya]

It's not an easy task, being an empath. I could really 'feel' the words you've written. Great write!

[Ellen Hammond]

Thank you. You are so right, it isn't easy being an empath especially when I tend to actually feel others emotional, mental, and physical pain too. Sometimes I just have to release feelings through writing. Thanks for taking time to read and comment.

[Zoya]

My pleasure!

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

A very smooth rhyming flow... pain is no greater than being alone in the dark.

[Ellen Hammond]

Thanks. It has been quite a while since I have been able to write anything so it is nice to know I have a smooth rhyming flow. The pain, physical and emotional, I was speaking of here can be overwhelming at times, especially when it is someone else's pain I am feeling.