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5/23/2021

Poetry by Sophia Reichert

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           Ilyse Whitney CC




Flooded Fires:

I am trying to bond with my anger.
We are nothing more than acquaintances.
             (I once enjoyed lying to myself.)
I do not know, anger. 
She does not know me. 

With no room to exist, 
denied a space or acknowledgement,
the waters of my depression 
tried to swallow her. 

When she boiled, small spikes
of a hot burning flood hit my chest.

               But I am starting to learn 
               there is a deep beauty in the 
               oxygen hitting my open flame. 

I once wanted to bend water,
so I could hide from the fire,
burning me from the inside out. 

Hiding was my only option. 

If she escaped my waterfalls, 
wouldn’t she catch all the budding 
flowers and falling leaves aflame? 

What if it all burned, and all I had was 
a flood of depression and a scorched land,
a raging fire unable to tame. 

It felt safer to lock her away. 

               But I am learning, 
               she is not there to torch,
               she is there to burn my weeds,
               to keep my heart warm, to fuel
               my biking, my running, my gardening. 

               She is wild and sometimes,
               so blue -
               she can destroy the water
               rising within me.

Anger’s fire is more 
than an acquaintance:
she’s me.
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Sophia is a writer by morning and teacher by day. She lives and works as a middle school teacher in the mountains. Her writing has appeared in Entropy Magazine and Phoebe Journal. When she is not writing or teaching, she can be found watching queer cartoons or making mint tea.

EMILY
7/12/2021 04:37:59 pm

I needed this today. I don't know why or how this poem came to me, but I needed it. As someone who struggles with mental health and managing my own triggers, I felt like this piece was speaking to me.

I always get mad at myself for getting triggered, which just leaves me angrier than when I started. Every time I feel like I'm getting better, I get triggered and fall back into the same hole I started in. This cycle has left me so so frustrated. I've even began to hate myself and engage in unhealthy coping mechanisms. When the author talks about anger burning weeds away and being used as fuel, something clicked in my head. I don't if I'm more accepting of my own emotions or what. I just want to let Sophia know that this message resonated with me so strongly. It's a message that needs to be heard! I know so many struggling people who this will help. Thank you!


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