Feeling pain I’ve become accustomed to numbing myself from Whether distractions of visual interactions, spirits or cannabis I avoided feeling my feelings and settled for bliss Because the world would call it empath, but I know it’s part of my gifts I feel deeply and hard and pick up on the atmosphere It isn’t always pleasant, so it became a thing I fear In my surrender to Yahweh, I laid down those distractions So now I take these emotions back to Him To help me work through them, Rather than avoid them And before liquor ever touched these lips or weed smoke hit my lungs I always had this pad and pen So now I take it back To where all of this began……. JAN 14, 2024