Why is it worst when I can feel
Why do these chemicals do this to my brain?
Why must I sort them in order to heal
Why don’t they stop? Why won’t they wane?
Why is it all such a tangled-up mess
Of intercrossed wires and internal strain?
Why can’t I simply undo one stress
Without igniting a different emotional flame?
Why must one feeling lead on to another?
Why, under scrutiny, does it split in twain?
It would be much simpler could I but smother
All color of feeling, and still remain sane.
Why must I plumb my own depths, my well?
Why must they always flow over with rain?
Why must I know myself so well?
Why must I feel so much? Please explain.