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Dissociative Identity Disorder

I am a house with many doors,
Each locked with keys I do not own—
The laughter of a child upstairs,
A weeping girl who walks alone.

One sings to stars in trembling light,
Another rages at the moon,
And I, the quiet one they fear,
Watch dawn arrive too soon it's near.

The mirror shifts—my face is new,
My name a sound I

Categories: dissociative, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Dissociative Amnesia

I walk within a shadowed hall,
Where echoes fade before recall,
The walls are bare, the mirrors blind,
A labyrinth, a maze in my own mind.

Fragments are scattered like broken glass,
Like a thousand leaves beneath the sun,
I search for truths I cannot find,
Each moment lost, each thread unlined.

The years slip by, a voiceless tide,
They took my past and

Categories: dissociative, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Dismissed! Battles laid down for a dissociative survivor

Thinking about us
I come undone
Looking back I don’t know
Whether we lost or won

Voices in my mind
That I just can’t translate
But I know
I’ll learn to appreciate 

I’m not laying blame
I’m not keeping score
I just wish I could find 
Who I was before

All was taken
And more was lost
A dissociative fugue 
Cost us the lot

What am I supposed

Categories: dissociative, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Free verse

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Dissociative Identity Disorder took care of that

A little girl lay still
Quietly in her bed
Fighting the screams
That roared inside her head

Hiding the fear within
Eyes sealed shut 
Breath contained
Too scared to move

She can longer stay
Too distressed
Her little brain floats away
Splitting itself
Forming new selves to take the pain
Anything to survive
This torturous hell

It's happening to another now
She's safe
Her psyche remains intact
Shielded from the events
Amnesia has

Categories: dissociative, abuse, deep, memory, mental
Form: Free verse

Blood Stained Chalice

Swimming in a pool of blood-
Baptized in my own sins. 

Dancing with my demons
Almost as though we were friends. 

Soaking in my misery- 
And I cannot evade.

The memories inside of me -
That I relive every day. 

I've tried to understand.
Why I deserved the wrath of rage.

Or why I had to suffer-
By the hands of the

Categories: dissociative, confusion, crazy, dark, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Dissociative Identity Disorder

I have a friend,
A friend that I never knew off
Not until he showed his face on the mirror
And he talked to me 

"Tell me what's your deepest fear
Is it knowing that you have no control
Or that I'm the one in control
And you just the vessel to pass my message 

Tell me why do you hold

Categories: dissociative, anxiety, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Free verse

On Negotiating With My Dissociative Identity Disorder

I met the new soul I was due to become, 
This morning, around about two.
He was beginning to redesign my thoughts, 
He was going to make me feel new,

When I thought, hang on, I haven’t finished 
Creating and being all that is me,
I haven’t finished building everything 
That is fun and friendly and free.

So we

Categories: dissociative, humorous, life, psychological,
Form: Quatrain

Dissociative

If scars are meant to be scrubbed out,
Then days are meant for dissociation.
And age is how long it’s been since you made it.

I can’t choke them off like words I could never 
Jar out of myself.
The light broke off—
I can no longer stand to watch my hands
Tremble.
I knew you were a goddess the second you

Categories: dissociative, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme