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Opia

(An Unexplainable Feeling Explained)

By Poppy Published about a year ago Updated 6 months ago 1 min read
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Opia
Photo by Iwona Castiello d'Antonio on Unsplash

A hollowness

In the stomach

As solid ground

Evaporates from

Beneath you

(Airborne)

Your back pressed

Against the confines

Of a brick corner

(Trapped)

Grateful you

Cannot move

The ocean’s waves

Pummelling you

Against coarse sand

And soaked seaweed

Stealing your breath

Burning your eyes

(The kind of thing

You keep running towards

With joyous laughter

No matter how many times

It knocks you down)

The sweetness

Of sugarcoated candy

(Packets torn open and

Crumpled in minutes)

Swallowing surety

Exhaling longing

Standing on the threshold

Of an arched doorway

Torn between looking away

And stepping closer

People and places

Vanishing like soil

Beneath growing plants

And blooming flowers

All of it summarised

By two sets of eyes

Meeting across

Another crowded room

All of it condensed to

Eye contact instead of

Worlds colliding

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Opia - the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable

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  • Mackenzie Davis7 months ago

    I shall keep it short and sweet: this is the objective correlative made manifest! SO gorgeous! The zooming-in effect is working incredibly well here. I love it, and the word, opia. :D

  • Paul Stewartabout a year ago

    love this and the extra information

  • Dana Stewartabout a year ago

    Fantastic!

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