The Real LJ Idol * Season 11 * Week 19: "I can't get calm"

[marlawentmad]

A rhythm beats

Comments

[d0gs]

I really really love this!

[bleodswean]

What I like about this piece is how endless the possibilities of "subject"!!

[karmasoup]

I wish I couldn't feel this poem. I wish you hadn't ever known this pain. But I'm glad we both came through it, I'm grateful you're strong enough to tell the story, and blessed you do it with such grace and eloquence. <3

[tonithegreat]

For me this is evocative of real anxiety, which is what the topic described to me, too. That awful feeling that something is terribly wrong and the world is too much with you. Beautifully done.

[rayaso]

This was such a wonderful, wrenching poem. I particularly liked the fourth stanza, as well as the ending.