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POETRY REFLECTION ISSUE

Unnoticed Changes

By Arthmeus Heildux

April 1, 2024

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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.  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ARTHMEUS HEILDUX was a contributing writer in Archivenal. This poem among with the other two titled “Unending Voyage” and “Those Moments” are her first and last feature in Archivenal.

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