Writing

Is like an emotional prosthetic

For me

Sometimes I can barely feel something

When I just get a small sense

Of the feeling

But don’t feel it fully

I write to allow the emotion to flow

It gives life to the feeling

Otherwise I feel trapped inside

Empty

And devoid of self

I feel it

Ever so subtly

Then I write

And then I write to develop

and express

the feeling

To allow it

To exist

It passes through

My fingertips

And the electric message

On the screen

Somehow makes

My feelings real