POEM STARTER

Write a poem using multiple rhetorical questions, where the narrator is questioning their own judgement or viewpoint.

You could use the questions to make the reader think, or to show how doubtful the narrator is of their own stance.

Empath’s Dilemma

Am I feeling what you’re feeling

Do I have a view inside

Is it empathy or arrogance

To think I know your mind


I’m upset when you’re upset

That I’m upset tha— stop.

Is it insight or insanity

To guess what’s in your thoughts


Sometimes when I’m in tune

with all your nuances and moods

With things I couldn’t, shouldn’t know

But feel as though I do


I wonder if I’m penning my own

Stories onto you

Tales I’ve written with my eyes closed,

Woke, and read like something new

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