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The Thoughts
April 26, 2022
Desperate thoughts spill on manuscript paper,
blotched with black ink
drowning in your mind, mimicked by
the perplexity of scrambled words.
Uncontrollably, anguish fills you upside down,
hanged by your tiptoes;
bursting open the gore which once gushed
through your succulent arteries.
Before your imagination remains the depths of an iceberg,
clogged with an abyss of strange incarnations;
fizzing and bubbling and oozing
undeviatingly on the surface.
Within this mess, the thoughts are eager to emerge,
haunted by the burning flame of the dragon's tail,
lighting the truth that has been hidden
behind the intentions of a sinking heart.
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My name is Rafaela, and I am a 15 year old girl from Brazil. In this piece, called "The Thoughts", I wrote about the struggles of overthinking, where disturbing language was used to convey the emotions of frustration and anguish that is brought about by the phenomenon.
The first stanza metaphorically observes the repeated writing as illegible, establishing a link between the persona's confused thoughts and the attempt to achieve a focus, a logic.
The second stanza describes the sensations that the persona feels when overthinking; the universal headache of which occurs that feels like your brain is about to burst.
The third stanza emphasises the constant reappearence of the thoughts, and their rooted deepness.
The fourth and last stanza reveals the efforts that the persona makes in order to escape from the loop of overthinking. The metaphorical "truth" mentioned in the poem really means that the more one thinks the more one escapes from the original idea, causing the thought to become pointless and loose its real meaning.