Door half-open
Door half-closed
Shadow – light
All transposed

Cup half-full
Cup half-empty
Is it lacking?
Is there plenty?

It’s too hot
It’s just right
It’s too cold
What a plight!

Close one door
New one opens
Toying with
My emotions

Happy, sad
Frightened, brave
Peaceful, mad
Giddy, grave

Rarely I
Am only one
I’m a mix
Shadow-sun

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This is my response to Sadje’s “What Do You See?” photo (above)

I spend way too much time with my counselor talking about emotions. At one point, she gave me a list of emotion words to help me identify what I’m feeling. It’s not that I don’t have feelings — it’s that I have trouble naming them. Well, I take that back — when I was going through a particularly challenging time, I shut down my feelings, and, as they have come back, they’ve sometimes re-emerge in a tangle.