POETRY ┃REFLECTION ISSUE
Unnoticed Changes
By Arthmeus Heildux
April 1, 2024

Photo by Jesse Draxler in 2021 at the Artist Coded site, @Jesse Draxler on Artist Coded.
THIS POEM APPEARS IN THE APRIL, ISSUE ONE: REFLECTIONS, PG. 21.
When I was a little kid,
I called myself as a dreamer.
I put all my hopes to my future adult version.
I dreamt for myself as a
successful person alive who
knows her own and be the better version of herself.
And guess, I am here now,
at the stage where I hope-for.
This not what I expected. Everything is cruel and chaotic.
The excitement I felt before,
where I started to dream for everything
is already gone and drown to the deepest part of my past.
No more happiness,
it becomes a long-lasting sadness.
My fragile heart becomes immune to numbness.
I think I have lost myself,
I can’t the find light of my dream.
All I can see is darkness with only one direction without hope.
I am drowning myself,
to something that doesn’t even exist.
I make myself suffer in silence that no one can see nor hear.
I am at phase of my life,
where I’ve realized that there’s no room for someone like me
who doesn’t even know the difference between fantasy and reality. ✦