Tripolar feelings: Emotions

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The one I love has diagnosed me
As being tripolar.
Please talk to me.


Are my feelings tripolar? You make me feel
like they are.
I’ve been told all my life I’m emotional.
Or is it you?


I’m starting to question
Am I tripolar?
Today you look at me
Like I mean everything to you.


Even your touch is seductive,
Not stale.
That makes me feel like a corpse.
That feeling was so yesterday.
Today I’m trying to fi gure out,
Are you Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?


You make my feelings tripolar.
Why do I feel lonely and unloved?
Why are you so angry?
Maybe I talk too much.
But you’re angry when I talk too little.
It seems like you’re tripolar.
I pretend something is in my eyes.


I fake yawning.
I feel something inside me,
Fighting to come out.
I try to push it back down.


Which will win?
My emotions or willpower?
The wall in this dam is cracked,
The water starts
To shoot out after a while.


I try to seal it.
But the water has to stop when it’s ready.


Oh no, you’re crying again.
Why don’t you just man up?
Stop being so girly!


I’m confused.
So men don’t cry?
Could it be when
You gave me half your rib.
You’re the reason why I cry
So much.
Maybe you’re weak.


I said it before, I think a lot.
Talk a lot.


And write a lot.

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