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Stigma

[this is about someone in my family who is suffering from PD symptoms] They look at him but he feels their smiles never really reach their eyes and he senses a kind of stigma around him. Losing control of movement creeps on him more often now he stumbles clumsily on his feet, grasping at thin air. His tongue seems to run away in the middle of a speech his thoughts vanish into space panic clutches at his throat. This emotional minefield carries him like a current headlong into outer worlds a landscape of tortured souls He keeps a constant struggle to ward off mental anguish listening to vestiges of sanity wedged in him. The wash of fear grips his life dreams ratchet not his misery like wind devils not chastened into silence, stay unleashed. He wonders if the flutter of dark wings in his mind will drive him to lose anchor on the moorings of his old life. @jjote posted 6/9/2016

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Date: 6/25/2016 10:47:00 PM
Josefina C, enjoyed reading your poem, thank you for sharing your thoughts through words. *SKAT*
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Josefina Costales
Date: 6/28/2016 9:15:00 AM
Glad you enjoyed. Kind of hard to put into words someone you see going through this kind of pain

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