Overflow
sometimes that's the way it goes
sometimes I overflow
like bubbles down the side of a glass
blown in through a straw
by an overenthusiastic child
sometimes it's beautiful
like the very first moment a mother
holds her child, the first moment
they breathe air and speak
sometimes it's awful
like losing a pet, so you go out to search
but as you make your way to the road
you see them lying there motionless
sometimes it's incomprehensible
like the concept of infinity or zero
something difficult to define
something with which you cannot divide
I used to panic whenever I would overflow
I'd try desperately to push the soda foam back in
sucking in through the straw
to no avail
these days though
I just breathe slow
because I remember
this is the process
this is being
sometimes it's messy
like me
but I'm allowed to overflow
as life does
and that's how we melt down into one
for better or for worse
it's awfully, beautifully incomprehensible
so it goes
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Lolly Vieira
Welcome to my writing page where I make sense of all the facets of myself.
I'm an artist of many mediums and strive to know and do better every day.
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Beautiful and I loved the ending!
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Thank you for writing this and helping us understand our own βoverflowβ π©΅
I absolutely love your story it is beautifully written! Your story is so unique and original, it is a master piece. You are one talented writer I really enjoy reading your story. Keep up the good work. Your writing is magical! β₯οΈπ
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Lolly, this is 'awfully, beautifully incomprehensible' in the best way possible. As an Engineer and a Poet who has written 170 stories about resilience, I was particularly struck by how you used mathematical limitsβthe concept of zero and the impossibility of dividing by itβto describe the weight of our emotions. That shift from panicking about the 'overflow' to simply breathing through it is a powerful lesson in being. Sometimes the messiness is where the real life happens. Truly deserving of its Top Story status!
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I loved the rhythm and flow of this poem. And so vivid too! Definitely deserving of top story, congrats!
Beautifully written!