Honey — Summary

BrieSad

emotions , sometimes thick and sweet . rolling down your spine with joy . bursting in your mind with love .

emotions , other times cold and bare . ripping at your heart with pain . plaguing your steps (slow and weak ) with sadness .

emotions , always there . holding you down (a puppet ) with dominance. breaking you down with strength .

emotions, taking their time . you consider shortening yours.

the choice , love, lose, break,bruise, scream,cry, smile,shake,sing,dance, anger,pain,shame. or nothing . it's there but you can't feel it . you feel nothing. absolutely nothing .

would you rather suffer from emotion , or have none at all , and just be more alone than you were before . with not even your emotions to guide you ?

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Brie's "Honey" is about how overwhelming emotions can be, and whether feeling nothing would be any better. The first stretches show feeling at both extremes: sweet and thick like honey, "rolling down your spine" with joy, then cold and bare, ripping at the heart with pain. The speaker describes emotions as something that controls you, like a puppet on strings, and that both holds you down and breaks you down.

Then the poem turns. The speaker admits that you might "consider shortening" the time emotions take, and offers a choice: a long, messy list of feelings, from love and dancing to shame and screaming, or numbness. The repeated "nothing" and "absolutely nothing" sounds flat and empty on purpose. The final question is a quiet one. Would you rather suffer, or be even more alone, without even emotions to guide you? The mood is raw and tired, but the poem leans toward the idea that painful feeling is still better than none.

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