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.

Conflicting Emotions

I want to be alone

But also be held

Why can’t I choose?


I want everyone to leave

But I’m scared of being left

Why such a difference?


I want to sink into an abyss

But frolic with friends in a field

Can I have both?


I feel so empty

But I know people care

So why can’t I see that?


I feel worthless

Yet people love me

Why is that?


I felt fine yesterday

And even earlier today

So why not now?


I feel like crying

But don’t know how

Did I ever know?


Please, someone could you help

Figure these emotions out

Or is that too much to ask?

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