Any nostr poets here?! I’d love to read some poems! Maybe we can start a thread. I’m by no means a poet, but I’ll put one out there to see if I can bait anyone else to share!

This is one I wrote awhile back about how burnout feels:

At the end of the day

I try to reconnect with my body

And it feels foreign

My limbs are not my limbs

Hunger, exhaustion, pain

Are some other beings inconveniences

That I pay the price for,

And reap none of the gain

I live in my brain

I’m loved for my brain

If you can call it love.

My heart, my body, they suffer

And wither. As I move pixels

Around a screen. Debate

Plan, and set in motion things

That aren’t real. That don’t

Have the energy of the bees

Or the trees or bring me to my knees

But instead I’m left numb. Floating

Inside of a cell that is my skin

Deep inside, far from the surface

Unanchored, ungrounded

Isolated

You’ll never find me,

And I’ll never find my way out

A muted touch. Like a greeting given

In a world without enough air

To vibrate. It fades, as if never spoken at all.

It gets harder, coming back to myself

And it feels less and less like home