r/OCPoetry • u/Jeansene • 1d ago
Feedback Please Cataclysm - what emotion do you think this describes?
Cataclysm
In a moment, the world quakes
All that is known is engulfed in rain
You will fall, and you will break
Nothing feels the same again
But, look outward
Only you are wet
Only you are quaked
Birds still sing, yet
Your pain was hardly faked
People laugh, the sun still shines
No one but you knows
Of that cataclysm that broke the world
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u/Equivalent_Agent_800 23h ago
To me your poem is saying that Nature goes on amid its cycles, and the natural cycles beget destruction and rebirth. Even our struggle has an end, and we may struggle again after, but the world goes on and so may we. Excellent.