Crippling Poems - Poems about Crippling

AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY MANY CHANGES OCCUR FOR ME IT WAS COPING WITH ANXIETY VERTIGO ATTACK WHERE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE ALWAYS ON A LEDGE FINALLY THE GROUND COMES UP TO MEET YOU THERE I WAS STANDING ON TOP OF A FLIGHT OF STAIRS RECOVERING FROM MY INJURIES FROM THE CAR CRASH PREPARING MYSELF...

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I feel as if I am the only one. I stand, my feet planted in the sand, and look ahead of me; a vast ocean appears. It’s beautiful, yet that is not what my fixated being chooses to look on. I see death; I see the countless lives lost by drowning, I see how unexplored...

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Triggered to skyhigh elevated state when I received communiqué courtesy management warden christened and otherwise known as Jackie Geiger dated March 9, 2022. She averred fruit fly infestation constituted lease violation, which could spell eviction since said issue involving Drosophila melanogaster necessitated costly exterminator intervention subsequently delivered resultant severe savage psychological strafing regular panic attacks (analogous to EF5 tornadoes the highest category on Enhanced Fujita Scale) unleashed with punishing alimentary canal winds i.e. lower gastrointestinal expulsions, which...

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The way it chokes me up, wrapping its hands around my neck It’s crippling me. My chest caves in, my hands tremble, my body sweats. It’s crippling me. I feel vulnerable, scared, anxious, and shameful. It’s crippling me. I can’t eat, I can’t think, I can’t even feel my emotions when they smack me in the face. It’s crippling me. The depression...

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They look for a little bit, and then they get tired of looking and they give up. They go back to their parents’ houses, lamenting that there are no jobs. No one wants to hire them. The parents take them in, pat their backs. Make a million excuses like the hundreds of times they did when they...

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I feel empathy for people that cry and try to bring their suffering to light. I can feel the joy within their world die, and I know in my heart that it isn't right. Loneliness can be a crippling feeling that's more devastating than people know. And that kind of hurting requires healing, or it'll fester and soon begin to show. Depression’s veil...

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A summer night in an autumn's room My fingers shaking, my heart's constant boom My eyes are closed but i'm not asleep The fan on high is the only faint squeak Repetition makes a fool out of me (Change the game to live happily) Prayer offered fervently upon shaking knees The shadows descend from outside trees Hypocrisy, shame: the names of my game My...

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