I Create For Your Interpretation
- Hashtag Kalakar
- Oct 1, 2025
- 1 min read
By Elyssa Mitts
My thoughts are hidden from the world
No one but me can see them
Whatever I think
Will be my thought in whole
And no other will ever know
My words are not my ideas
No matter how many words are spoken
They will never truly contain my ideas
But my ideas can be grasped
Even if the words can never say all of it
My texts are for Your interpretation
Whatever I think behind the veil that I write
Will never be the same as the words You see
No matter how much I try to convey my mind
My mind only belongs to me
Please don't try to contain my ideas
For You are meant to have Your own
Stay true to Your interpretation
Because the variety is my enlightenment
And I rejoice in acknowledging Your truth
My poems are meant for interpretation
The Reader’s own personal outcome
And I relish when it is different from my own
My poems were meant for Your interpretation
Not for You to try and fail to understand Me.
By Elyssa Mitts
I really felt this poem in my soul. It was so relatable to hear "my thoughts are hidden from the world... my words are not my ideas." I feel like that a lot, and I feel like this poem captures that feeling of having great ideas in my mind and heart but not sounding like they're truly mine once spoken or written on paper.
Keep writing fantastic and touching poems!
You are an amazing poet! This is fantastic! Rooting for you!
I really like how this poem explores how people can have different interpretations of a work than its creator and that the work is not a perfect reflection of its creator.
You grasp the feeling of disconnect between speaker and the words they speak. It goes from acknowledging it to accepting it.
"My poems were meant for Your interpretation
Not for You to try and fail to understand Me."
From your whole poem, I really loved these lines in particular because its deep and meaningful on so many layers that people can relate to. For me its symbolic of how one's misunderstandings and assumptions, based in their own interpretation, can cost them from truly knowing the other person's nature and intention.