it’s always there
feeling
that emotion
but it doesn’t come
up for air
not for days
weeks
or months
Until it happens
It is outside of me
something mundane
a comment
a look
too much light
too much sound
that hurts
it breaks the surface
like a high tide
unfelt felt emotion
before I know
tsunami like
coursing up and out
with veracity
and I retreat
backwards
like low tide
and hide
Jacci Pillar 