There’s something bitter bleeding inside me and I can’t quite place the pain. I can feel it seeping through the cracks of my body, filling in the stretch marks that decorate my skin. Everything hurts and I can’t figure out where one pain starts and another ends. And what’s worse, is I don’t know what exactly is bleeding. It seems too cold to be blood but warm enough not to be water. Suppose it’s pain in a liquid form, and that’s what I’m experiencing? I hate these unknown feelings.

Unless, there’s a reason for unknown feelings?

There’s something kind blooming where my heart is and I can’t quite place it. Every time I see someone smile at me, the blooming just grows and I feel my body brighten. Only when things like this happen it seems as though the day grows shorter, whispering in my ears that ‘eternity’ and ‘joy’ is simply an illusion. How we’re not meant to be happy forever, cause that would make life too easy. Suppose the blooming is a flower inside my body, and that’s what I’m experiencing? I hate these unknown feelings.

Unless, there’s a reason for unknown feelings?

There’s nothing within me, I feel almost, empty and I can’t quite place the name. Its as if I’m not all right there at the moment, but instead justing standing in the middle of a memory. There’s apparently liters of things inside me, but that’s only scientifically. My brain seems lost as my body seems numb and my heart slightly slowing. Perhaps there’s a reason for my nonexistent presence even though I’m still lingering in the same place I’ve been in for the past few minutes. Suppose the emptiness is simply my self restarting, and that’s what I’m experiencing? I hate these unknown feelings.

Unless, there’s a reason for unknown feelings?

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Challenge

Emotion: Nodus Tollens

n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore—that although you thought you were following the arc of the story, you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand, that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre—which requires you to go back and reread the chapters you had originally skimmed to get to the good parts, only to learn that all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Write short prose or poem expressing this emotion. Regardless of which on you choose it has to be expressed within 6 to 12 sentences ( prose) or lines (prose or poem). I'll be doing four more of these challenges later. Thank you Thought Catalog for gathering these wonderful words. May the games begin! On January 28th I'm doing an Emotion: Énouement Challenge