Can You Feel? Poem by Sana Olivia Hernandez
Can You Feel?
Can you feel my everlasting love?
Can you feel my naive forgiveness?
Can you feel my unhateful tears?
Can you feel the treachery I feel when you kick me when I'm down?
When I'm unable to make a single sound?
Can you feel the pain I feel? Both emotional and physical.
Can you feel all the false smiles?
Can you feel the all too real heart break and love abuse?
Can you feel my all too strong need for you?
One I so desperately deny.
Can you feel my ever boiling anger arise?
Though I can't hurt you, let alone a fly.
Why such torture?
Why such pain?
Is it my loss and your gain?
Or are we the same?
Let alone sane.
Abandon trust.
Abandon hope.
It's getting hard to stay afloat in a sea of betrayal and pain.
A never ending cold, hard rain.
Do I stand?
Do I bow?
Do I run and hide?
Or do I continue to ride this wave of pain until it collapses upon me with only one more breath of your frustrating adoration, and mixed-messaged love?
Hit me.
Kick me.
Make me numb inside.
But death you will not grant until my spirit is dead, dead, dead.
Am I for your heart or only your bed?
Or just a future wife with an air head?
A heart shredding wed that would be.
Do you take me dead or alive?
Or snatch me while I kick and I cry?
Did you drug your hands while they hit?
Or your heart and your mind?
Making it impossible for me to want to find an escape?
Does it bring you joy?
Do you feel this is the right and only way?
Or do you hide a devastated heart behind that wicked, spine chilling smile each and everyday?
Are we the same?
Am I still sane?
Have you finally tamed my fighting spirit after all these years?
Only to have you retreat with a white flag held high.
Do we really want to say goodbye?
After all this time?
All the torture we put each other through?
Yes, I am just as guilty as you.
The only chance for us to survive.
Is not to feud.
But to come together and say,
'I love you.'
And to say it with truth.
I don't hate you.
I don't like you.
I love you.
Can you feel this battle ending?
Can you feel my rising suspicion?
Can you feel my willing heart's kiss?
Can you feel my captive spirit's defeated cry?
Could you feel my heart when it was about to die?
Can you feel our hearts combine?
So many wrongs but this is right.
Can you feel my love that will never die?
Even at our final goodbye?
I hate...us.
But I love you.
-SOH
I could barely finish reading this poem because the emotions you express are so raw and passionate. But I pushed through to the end and was rewarded by the luminous, yes LUMINOUS closing lines, which to my mind, redeem all the preceding pain - Can you feel my love that will never die? /Even at our final goodbye? /I HATE... US./BUT I LOVE YOU. I cannot put into words how profoundly moving I find these closing words. You have expressed something very painful but also very wonderful. It's not an end, but a beginning....
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4/17/2024 9:15:15 AM # 1.0.0.1119
CAN YOU FEEL? Three simple words make a simple question - Hardly. Rather they open the floodgates to a torrent of feelings. Too many to process. Too many to address. Too many to even remember by the of the poem. I can imagine someone using this poem in a Dramatic Reading. Highlighting passages for her or his recital. Carefully choosing the speed of delivery for various stanzas, and then tossing all the planning out and deciding to do it spontaneously. Whatever the final decisions the speaker makes the performance will crackle with energy. And it's that energy of your writing which makes this more than what it appears on first reading. I identified the closing lines on my first encounter as stunning, a reversal, a VOLTA. But now I have found another passage that rises out of the flood of the poem, namely, I DON'T HAT YOU/I DON'T LIKE YOU/I LOVE YOU.