Hi,
The other day I was sitting in my room, music playing low, just watching the light shift across the wall. And I kept thinking about how strange it is that some things feel impossible to explain. Like how a song can make you cry even if you don’t know the words. Or how the smell of rain on the pavement can bring back someone you haven’t seen in years.
Language tries to pin everything down. It labels, measures, organizes. But the truth is, life doesn’t always fit into neat sentences. Sometimes, the realest things live outside the edges of words.
That’s why I write poems. Not because I think they explain anything better, but because they let me say what can’t be said. A poem isn’t meant to tell you exactly what to feel. It’s more like music — you don’t have to explain why it moves you. You just feel it.
I think that’s where the beauty is. Not in solving the mystery, but in being able to sit with it. To notice the softness of your sister’s laugh, the rhythm of your brother’s hands on the table, the ache in the silence after someone you love is gone. These things don’t need definitions. They just need you to notice.
And maybe poetry is a way of reminding ourselves to notice. To see that the ordinary — a half-empty cup of tea, a beam of afternoon light, the sound of footsteps fading — is already extraordinary.
Poem:
There are no perfect words
for the way shadows fold at dusk,
or how a single note
can break open your chest
like glass under water.
Some things aren’t meant to be explained.
They are meant to be felt.
Like the laughter that lingers
long after the joke fades.
Like the warmth of someone’s hand
when no one else is watching.
Life speaks its own language.
All we can do is listen.
I think that’s what writing really is for me. Not explaining life, but pointing to it. Letting you feel the things I can’t fully say.
Talk soon,
Poems I’ll Never Post
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