the owl's wide eye catches the moon's stare
Submitted by Captain Ophie on Thu, 06/21/2007 - 1:35amTonight I don't feel well.
There are times, usually at night, when I don't feel well and I don't know why. There are no reasons why I should be sad. But I am. Sometimes I think I must not want myself to be happy. I look at people who seem happy and wonder why I can't have that out look.
Sometimes though, I am so happy, so happy, and I don't understand why the person I am with can't give that back to me. Why he can't make me feel better when I am sad or why he can't love me with the same abandon that i give him. He is what upsets the most. But I don't really think its him.
Its just the place he fills in my life that scares me. I ususally feel so lonely and secluded that the idea of losing one of the few people that i have allowed into my life upsets me. It upsets me that I am so dependent on him. That I call him crying and ask if he wants to be with me and it upsets me that he can't see that I just need someone, anyone to be there for me. I don't want to need someone like that.
It is hard, because I go from such extremes. LIke right now, after writting all that I feel better. That is always how it is though. I fluctuate from an empowered radical feminist who doesn't give a shit what people think to a self doubting, codependent coward. I don't know how to balance these fractures of myself into a whole person.
Don't get me wrong I appreciate the insight my spectrum of emotions give me, it is just hard sometimes. like tonight.
I couldn't have written it better myself!
It's almost like you have been into my head and encapsulated one of the episodes I experience regularly.
I'm philosophical in my ways and feel that you have to experience the bad to appreciate the good but does it have to be this bad? Does it have to torment your every waking thought until the waves of normality return?
I just wish that there could be a balance between the two extremes. Although, would the good times be as good if the bad times were not quite as bad?