April 10, 2026
Elexis Johnson
Hitting me
Like a gun shot to the head
All the emotion i was hiding
Came rushing in
Like it was waiting
For a weak moment
So it can make its move
Sadness sat next to joy
Anger played with the longing
Fear hits it head
Against hope
Like they were enemies
Fighting because they hate each other
My chest is a crowded room
Of feeling that refused
To take turn
Trying to breathe
But it was too small
For a magnitude
Of what was inside of me
I let it happen
The flooding
A collapse
The rising
I felt everything at once
But for the first time
No apology came
For being the storm
In the world that wants
Clear skies
– E. J.