Analgesia

I come back to these scribbles
jotted down in broken verse
   of when I felt.
When my body burned with passion and rage
when my loins ached or my heart broke.

Revisiting the epoch of life
trying to re-assemble the shape of those energies.

Yet I am still numb.

Apathetic and drifting on analgesia
the medicine my hysterias sought.

Humanity leached into distance and fugue.
Desensitized to the state of existence. 
I cease to be me.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Pigeon Tart Avatar
April 15, 2019 at 9:29 PM
Potent, visceral penning.
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