Where? — Summary

I look into the pitch of the night I don't know why it gives me such a fright...

Is it cause that's where you first ran your fingers along my skin. Still that thought of us makes me feel so thin

It makes me feel as if I'm nothing but just some wind. You said you love me but I still don't see it. Please tell me if you know where it is, I just want to feel it.

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Nikky's poem starts with a simple, uneasy question: why does the dark night feel so frightening? The speaker then offers a guess. Maybe it's because the night is tied to a memory of a lover's first touch. What should be a tender moment now leaves them feeling "thin," as if something has been worn away.

That feeling grows in the third stanza, where the speaker says they feel like "nothing but just some wind," light, empty and easy to pass through. The ending is the most raw part. They have been told "I love you," but they can't feel it, and they ask, almost pleading, where that love is. The title, "Where?", echoes this.

The mood is lonely, anxious and vulnerable. The rhymes (fright/night, skin/thin) give it a simple, confessional sound, like a private thought said out loud in the dark.

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