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are my emotions asleep?
or do still waters run deep?

what is in the deeps?
is it silent for keeps?

are my feelings asleep?
or in a deep freeze?

frozen but alive?

I can’t see inside

are my emotions asleep?

 

             no motion

 

are my feelings asleep?

asleep or frozen deep?

for now or for keeps?

and how could they thaw?
would they feel too raw?



             I try to see
             I try to feel

             but all is still

             except sometimes I weep

 

why is all so silent, so numb?
like a street silent, fresh snow



but that’s the silence of peace
the silence of grace
a silence so vast
so safe
I taste the snow on my tongue

that’s not emotions asleep
that’s so wide awake
awake to a world at peace and vast

peaceful joy, elation,
oneness so deep
no words reach – I can only feel

feel oneness so vast, peace, elation

in a world of fresh fallen snow

love and peace

 

but now, are my emotions asleep?
this is not a feeling of peace

something should be here
but no motion

do still waters run deep?

did something freeze?
freeze and go numb?

can this be undone?

like seeds in the sun

 

but these are not seeds
meant to wait

these are feelings asleep
meant to live
and to flow

             I wait





Elsa

September 11, 2009


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