The Shell of Being

Yesmine Ben Salah
1 min readJan 21, 2020

My face rips

Between a dozen emotions.

I can’t even decide on that

Nor can I plunge myself

In anything agile.

Me who walks on the thick fragile

Surface of things.

The cortex of the cortex

of feelings with wings.

Soon enough,

Gone with the winds.

Time to yell

To Ring a bell

And break the shell!

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