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August 17, 2011
By freakystyley BRONZE, Kinnelon, New Jersey
freakystyley BRONZE, Kinnelon, New Jersey
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when the world ends
(the world will end)
we will all feel it

the first sign
is tightness in the sides of your neck
a slight gasping for breath
you will try so hard to swallow

the second sign
is a tightness in your chest
you'll feel it in your soul, that piercing emotion
choking you

the third sign
the headache bouncing from temple to temple
almost exactly
in time with your racing heart

your breathing increases
the skin
around your mouth pulls down and out and open
to let out a scream

a wail
heat everywhere everywhere everywhere
skin tightening
pulling
convulsing
uncontrollable

stuck pain emotion so much emotion so tight skin tightness dry salty hot hot wet salty headache forehead headache brows wrinkled forehead wrinkled cheeks up eyes squinted eyes red sting sting stinging welling they well up and up and up
and out

and down

feeling so much through so little
we feel our world end


The author's comments:
An attempt to describe how it feels to break down in tears, this poem discusses how we all feel like the world is ending in that sudden attack of emotion. Nothing else seems relevant, nothing could compare to the sadness instituted by any event or situation that would make one feel such a way.
I wrote this piece after being verbally abused by my mom, it is all raw emotion,shaky handwriting converted into Internet text.

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on Oct. 31 2011 at 10:03 pm
freakystyley BRONZE, Kinnelon, New Jersey
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thanks so much!

on Sep. 17 2011 at 3:58 am
afflatus SILVER, Bhopal, Other
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Favorite Quote:
Be honest. It's one of the few things in life you can control.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!but it doesn't happen like this,.....

hey good work......:)

on Aug. 20 2011 at 8:55 pm
freakystyley BRONZE, Kinnelon, New Jersey
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Exactly, it's strange how we all come from different backgrounds, but its the drastic situations which pull out strong and important, though sometimes irrational, emotion.

on Aug. 20 2011 at 8:49 pm
snaomi PLATINUM, Cheshire, Connecticut
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yikes - just read the comment on the side about your mom :( sorry about that - you can really feel the emotion of it in your words.  and its so true that when people you should look up to (like parents) make you feel small, it is, in a very real way, the world ending

on Aug. 20 2011 at 8:40 pm
freakystyley BRONZE, Kinnelon, New Jersey
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Thanks(: That's totally what I was trying to get accross, you get it!

on Aug. 20 2011 at 8:36 pm
snaomi PLATINUM, Cheshire, Connecticut
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wow.  the evolution of this poem is really cool - I like the way it disintegrates in such a way that the words almost don't even matter, because you're so caught up with momentum of the poem.

really feels like someone dissolving into tears.