Best Desensitized Poems

I sit stunned in silence.
At these images of horror, nature, and violence.
Unable to move as if in a trance.
I see if not total acceptance.
Then what I deem as TOO MUCH tolerance.
I along with the masses wait for the next tragic instance.


1,000 reported missing or dead.
With...

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Feeling everything at once,
And nothing at all.
Numb?
Maybe.
Just may be the medications,
My therapist says,
Meditation.
The answer,
The problem?
Is manic depression.
Some say disorder,
I scream.
Obsession.
The doctor’s dose me, 
I obliged,
Just because I don’t want to die.
Addiction killed my soul,
Reprive,
Or spiritually die.
I just want to be alive.
A life.
What is a life...

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I'm used and abused,
Discarded like garbage.
I must be insane.
I'm made to feel like scum,
Boy you do a good job of that.
I live in pain and misery,
Day in and Day out.
I've been betrayed,
I've been made fun off.
Mean comments thrown at me.
I've been told I'm not worthy,
Only...

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Feet planted on city sidewalks, body folds with in, another homeless person
in need of a friend.
They're cropping up in alley ways, cluttering urban streets, belongings now in
shopping carts, at night on grates to sleep.
Yet another soup kitchen, our shameless omission.
Passersby walk fast with eyes that...

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