Running from Unknown Feelings
Brianna Carthins
As I look at this casket I stand in guilt.
Shouldn't I feel some great loss
for this someone that I could have grown closer to?
It’s sad to say, but I feel no astonishing pain.
There was no pain built,
no pain built inside of me.
Maybe just a shame that I felt
for a soul that was clearly not there.
I did have a feeling of jilt,
a resentment akin to pain.
But pain-
true pain-
I didn't have as I stared into that casket.
Stared at the soulless body of my Maman.