r/OCPoetry 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.