Self Expression #14

Superpowers

By: Vibha Moorthy

When I was younger 

And people asked me

What kind of superpower

Would you want to have?

I would say reading minds 

Or maybe being invisible

Because I cared about understanding people

And other times I felt insecure 

But now if you asked me what kind of power I would want 

I would tell you 

I want the ability to turn my feelings off

It would be freeing to be able to live in my body 

Instead of my head 

No more ruminating

No more anxiety 

And then maybe I’d finally understand 

What it’s like to live in the present 

instead of running back to the past, 

or worse, the future. 

Yes, I think that I would like that very much 

This ability to not feel at all.