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KREATIV CHAOS
<p><br/></p><p>DAY 096/100</p><p><a class="tc-blue" href="https://twocents.space/insights/tag/the365kreativhub">#the365kreativhub</a></p><p><a class="tc-blue" href="https://twocents.space/insights/tag/the100writingmarathon">#the100writingmarathon</a></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>KREATIV CHAOS</p><p><br/></p><p>There are a million and one thousand thoughts</p><p>crowding my gut all at once,</p><p>some days they ring like sudden alarms,</p><p>and when I check,</p><p>it’s always a sentence reminding me</p><p>of how deeply I have been hurt.</p><p><br/></p><p>Other days,</p><p>it feels like standing in a room full of foes,</p><p>trying to name your pain</p><p>while every voice steals your language.</p><p><br/></p><p>It is a marketplace,</p><p>loud, unkind, tugging at my sleeves,</p><p>yet I must trade my words for meaning,</p><p>my trembling for clarity,</p><p>my chaos for something that resembles my hurt.</p><p><br/></p><p>Once upon a time,</p><p>I had a fantasy that I found a love</p><p>that understood me,</p><p>and in a minute,</p><p>I wrote them in papers,</p><p>drafted them in margins,</p><p>stitched them into stories</p><p>where my wounds were seen</p><p>and my appearance was fading.</p><p><br/></p><p>But fantasies are abrupt liars,</p><p>they hold you like truth</p><p>until reality walks in</p><p>and everything you imagined</p><p>begs for air.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I am a poet,</p><p>so when I hand you my heart,</p><p>beware of the noises it makes,</p><p>and search for the Me in everything</p><p>before the chaos.</p>
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