WRITING OBSTACLE
Your character has been struggling to understand an emotion. They finally ask their best friend about it, only to find out that they’ve been feeling it too.
Try to think of interesting ways you can describe the emotion, particularly as your character might not know the right word for it.
Apathy
Apathy: Noun
Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
Emotions came in rivers and waves-
Laughing crying screaming raves-
Childhood passions vast as caves-
Now they float to shallow graves.
It wasn’t slow it wasn’t fast-
It felt like it had been my past-
One morning I woke to see-
I couldn’t come to care about me.
My friend glowed with glittering smiles-
While I felt abandoned in my trials-
She laughed she cried she burst with rage-
My heart was but an empty cage.
She was perfect I was cold-
Barely had lived but hollow and old.
Then one night in the party shadow-
I found her without her heart aglow-
Her eyes were dim her mind was cold-
She looked young but felt so old-
I leaned on the wall with her to-
And found out what was true-
All that glitters is not gold-
And we all feel tired and old.
Hello Layla, I noticed that you stopped posting about 6 weeks ago. Are you okay? I hope that you’ll come back here again, your writings are always so fun to read❤️!
<3 it!
Amazing rhyming! Loved how this was about apathy which is not a traditional emotion to write a poem about.