Feelings

Feelings - meaning Summary

Pain Masked by Irony

The poem expresses intense emotional injury after a loved one’s betrayal. The speaker insists the hurt is real despite lack of visible wounds, contrasting inner bleeding with a composed outward appearance and others’ casual compliments. The final image—being "mummified" alive—captures a living paralysis: preserved, inert, and cut off from feeling. It mixes stark pain with bleak, ironic humor to emphasize isolation and suppressed suffering.