This is how it feels to burn
Like the way you set me aflame
Watched as the fire build
And left me for the same

This is how it feels to weep
Like the way you sent me asunder
As if I was a screaming storm
Filled with hurricanes and thunder

This is how it feels to love
To let the heart be healed
And walk along the twilight skies
And be willing to finally feel

This is how it feels to lose
Like the way you made me lost
A map of twisting words that never made sense
As if I were a price yet to cost

This is how it feels to believe
Like the way you gave me faith
Made me pray for something more
Feed me a little and make me lust for the taste

This is how it feels to become whole
Like the way you made me a puzzle
One piece was always missing
Leaving my mind mozzled

This is how it feels to feel pain
Like the way you gave me the searing grief
Let it flow over me like an ocean tide
And never knowing when there would be relief

So do me a favor
Don't you dare ask for this to end
Karma has come, my dear
And it's will shall not bend

Not this time and not again.

"How It Feels"

2005

I love all your poems Marina, such perfect tone and imagery.