By: Christy Vilcas

It can come in a hundred different forms.

From the sick, empty feeling in your stomach from hiding the untold truth,

To the heavy boulder of lies you carry around, weighing you down, ripping apart your youth.

The guilt will eat at you in an unimaginable, horrendous way,

Gnawing at your emotions in a terrible manner.

Remorse is a funny feeling, even words can’t convey.

It is like trying to go back to fix your errors that you faced but now matter how hard you try,

It just can’t be erased.

It’s way more than just trying to apologize.

We both know it’s way too late for that, too late for a compromise.

You can try and try, even beg for forgiveness,

But at the end of the day, know that nothing can be done,

For your mistakes are something you can’t outrun.

Poetry Publication Reflection:

1. I wrote an Emotion Poem.
2. I choose the emotion Remorse for my poem because it is a very powerful feeling. Even though I don’t feel it every day, I can still remember how I felt when I made some mistakes that I can’t reverse.
3. The tone of my poem is depressing.
4. The theme of my poem is some things that you do, just can’t be undone.
5.  a) “It is like trying to go back to fix the errors that you faced,”  b) This is a simile.  c) This simile contributes to the tone and theme development because it shows how awful you feel when you feel the emotion remorse. It also shows that you can’t turn back time, meaning you can’t do anything when you feel remorseful.
6.  a) “The guilt will eat at you in an unimaginable, horrendous way,”  b) This is personification.  c) This example of personification contributes to the tone and theme development because it shows how it will feel when the guilt begins to get to you.
7.  I substituted the words “turn back time” to “go back”. I made this revision because the first words were too hard to say and the words were too much of a mouthful.
8.  I added rhyming words at the end of almost every other sentence. I made this revision because it helped the poem flow more smoothly.
9.  It was pretty easy to write my poem because I had experience with feeling the emotion remorse. The only difficult part was making sure that the words at the end were able to rhyme.
10.  I am really satisfied with my final draft because I feel like I put in the best that I could and my best effort. With the amount of time I had to write it, I feel like my poem is a reflection of my work.