Saturday, March 1, 2025

on the edge: what's below?

 

emotional hijacking


a gift of intellect

is like being given innumerable keys

that can often unlock ways of understanding,

doors into moving forward,

a gift of emotionality,

which I have received, increasingly so,

it is not so much keys

as revved-up reactions,

though even that has important revelations,


I describe myself as on edge,

already at the brink of chasms of feeling:

a moment of fear,

a moment of empathic leap,

and I am hijacked,

I am so tender to touch on the heart

that the slightest prick

and I bleed fearful tears.



by Henry H. Walker

February  26, ‘25

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