Parts of Me

You Did Not Know

I feel.

It's a surprise, isn't it? Surely

Someone like I

Cannot feel,

Only try.

I wish the case was true,

But no.

A hope-gone rat like me

Does know.

.

There are many times

I wish the opposite were true –

I wish I could be as empty

As a shell, I’ll rue

The day a sea-animal

Takes refuge

And invests my mind

With hopes and moods.

.

For surely, it is better,

Much,

To be an empty shell.

Than to want for dreams and luck,

It will not happen, I know

And I would just be crushed

Whence the inevitable comes;

And my hopes are hushed.

.

But someone has blessed me –

Blessed me? Pah!

But ridden me with thought.

Which makes me wonder of far

And distant places, abroad.

.

I feel as if I am not blessed,

But rather cursed, indeed,

Not unlike Medusa,

When she did not take heed.

.

So continue to look down at me

And think you know it all.

I cannot feel, impossible!

I can.

.

Are you enthralled?