Challenge
Imagine you are writing to someone who has never felt before. Describe an emotion without using any emotion words. What is sadness? How do elation make your body feel? Teach us what your emotion is. Put the name of your emotion in the title, and have a go.
emotional anguish
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the essence of a heavy soul, set in a whisper too loud to swallow
the deepest encounter with your own thoughts
while you can’t run away from a cold
that turns into a pain,
a freezing disaster that causes a flood
drenched in sorrow that escalates
until your lungs threaten to burst,
an ache that slowly destroys you
but doesn’t take you in,
it only holds you down
so you don’t remember what it really means to breathe
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