Raw Emotions — A Poem
Everywhere you go
There’s someone who wants to fight you
Anywhere you go
Earthquakes surround you
You look at yourself confused
You just want to do you
Why is that this world
Can’t let you do what you want to
Just smile
Just smile
And laugh for no reason
My world, my stars
They don’t need nobody else
Is that why?
Is that why?
They want to make you cry?
Is that why?
Is that why?
Every joy meet someone’s evil eye?
No, not at all love
For being there for others requires you to be the witness
This life,
— this illusion of a life
It wants you to experience it
Fully —
my love.
As deeply as it is possible.
You’re alive.
Yes you’re alive.
This is what living feels like.
When you don’t need
— nobody else.
Reading this felt a bit like listening to someone think out loud in the middle of a long night. When the world seems noisy and confrontational, yet inside you’re just trying to hold on to your own small patch of sky.
That line about simply wanting to “do you” really landed with me. So many of us are quietly walking around with that same wish: to move through life without constantly bracing against someone else’s expectations or projections. But I love where you gently turn it: that perhaps being alive means feeling all of it. The strange mix of joy, resistance, beauty, and misunderstanding. In a way, witnessing it all is part of the human assignment.
And the invitation to just smile, laugh for no reason… there’s something quietly rebellious in that. A reminder that the heart can still choose lightness even when the world tries to pull it elsewhere. Sometimes that small inner freedom, that space where your “stars” still belong to you, is where life feels most real.
Love this! Poetry is slowly becoming a lost art in the age of video consumption. (I hope I’m wrong). Thanks for inspiring me to go back to poetry -- reading and maybe writing some for pleasure and creative release. ❤️