Feeling Fire

Everyone tells her to hold it all in 

As if feeling emotions is such a mortal sin

Their words like fire 

As they burn deep inside her

To them it is a spark too small to light  

To her it is all it takes for her whole world to ignite

It is a drop in the ocean vs the ocean in a drop 

How do they expect to make her heart stop 

Like turning a faucet back off 

At the mere thought of that freedom she scoffs 

It is a fascinating thing to imagine 

If the flood of thoughts and feelings could come in a fraction 

To be able to live without all the racket 

It pulls and taunts her like a straight jacket 

It connects together her heart and brain 

Thump thump thumping to the beat of her pain