Dark Numb Poems

When you want to breathe,but the lungs feel heavy;
When you want to scream but the voice feels unheard,
When you want to cry but the heart...

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 Written for the contest "Poe in the style of Plath" sponsored by Tom Woody 

 I am a weakling against supremely star-studded skies
Where stolen...

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Hurt but not broken,
Words worth but not spoken,
An urge to just feel, anything that’s real, 
The sting of a razor was all that would save...

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(His Version of Somber)

Even in the light of day no light can penetrate me, the darkness seeps out of my soul and it consumes me
I...

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I like seeing myself
smile

Happiness was new
I 
Only felt it for a moment

Fleeting feelings deep inside

Emotionally numb
As
I ran away to a dark place where I would...

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It's that dark power again,
it has taken its form again.

this dark power,
it has switched off a light again.

a total eclipse has occurred,
and in this onslaught...

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Horror things aren't scary anymore
Neither deformed faces nor the creepy lore

Doesn't startle me the way they used to
Doesn't make the stomach beg for a loo

I...

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more alcohol has passed these lips
than waters fill the seas
more tears have rained upon this face
than storms could ever dream

so numb is just a daily...

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In the middle of the cold night
I pray the dark my dreams to keep
For when I wake I fear my thoughts
Of my mistakes and my...

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I don't know 
how much longer 
I can survive 
surrounded by those 
that hurt me 
and lie.
Is it considered suicide 
if you just give up...

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He had brown hair and the most passionate eyes 

Is this Axel? 
I’m sure it is! 

I laughed although I was still in shock 

It...

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And left without realizing I understood nothing 
I shrugged it off with a lump in my throat 
I tripped and stumbled over to the countertop...

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I wish that nightmares only happened in dreams
Or lives that were so tightly joined together, didn't burst at the seams
I wish that I could find...

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There’s a place I go
A haunted house
Alone in the woods
Nobody seems to go but me

The fear inside 
Is not of shrieks and screams
It’s a different...

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Some think to utter you are numb is dumb.
  Like a frayed twine, emotion becomes blind.
   Can't cry, could only voice a...

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