To simply sit with my feelings is an art I have never learnt
When strong emotions make me uncomfortable, I tend to turn
Towards some activity that helps me temporarily forget
The intense emotions, but by doing this I do not let
My mind accept the feelings as they happen to be
I keep resisting discomfort vehemently
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If I could just sit with my feelings for a period of time
Not try to replace them, bury them or act on them, I might find
That the discomfort eventually decreases
Once I have processed the emotion, it ceases
To affect me in the way that it did initially
I can move on to the other challenges in life waiting for me
