Trauma

Trauma.....
Always there like a shadow 
looming and haunting
It be monster in closet
Be spook that sits by a door
It sticks.... 
thick and solid like tar and feather
A plague that becomes everlasting
Repetitive in one's heart
a knot in throat that has became
too hard to swallow

Trauma..... 
a disease infused inside a life
This life
a life filled will bittersweet
sadness and guilty happiness
accompanied with fake smiles
holding hands with depression
acting... as if everything is just fine
The load, too heavy to bear yet
too proud to ask for help to ease 
the weight of secret burdens
Generational curse placed up thee
Creeping in and out of remission 
from a graveyard of regret
It plays hide and seek with emotions
while bathing in the tears of 
a fool twice removed
Years of unresolved trauma 
woven into the fabric of childhood
where its remnants of adulthood have began to unravel

Trauma...
A plethora of cracked promises
a broken soul that has yet to be repaired
A toxin seeping from yesterday's past
being forced to inhale its
malignancy of anguish
Staining the cornerstone of drifting 
memory that merely fades
but... never fully washes away
© 8-20-2020

angeranxietyblack african americanfree verse

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