Numbness Poems | Examples

My blood, my comfort

She always hated the sight of blood
But now it had become her greatest comfort
She felt her blood was the only one who understood 
What it was like to be judged
Both hated on for their colour
Both wanting to be hidden
Both wanting to be invisible 

Each cut sent waves of euphoria throughout her body
She wasn't a masochist 
She just loved being in control
It was a distraction
From all the racists
Who consistently punished her 
For her skin colour
She didn't know if she could deal with it anymore
She didn't want to be here no more
She had always wondered about life after death 
What would happen?
Would she finally find peace?
Or would she forever carry the weight of her race for eternity?

All she wanted was to exist 
Without being discriminated against 
Without someone bullying her for her skin colour
She was tired
Whilst she was stuck in her mind
She hadn't realised 
How deep she had cut
She saw how much blood she had lost 
She wasn't sad
She was just numb 
The last thing she thought of before she succumbed 
Was freedom

Just those kind of nights

Slept throughout the day,  
Feels like I’ve slept through my life.  
Wide awake I lay—  
It’s just that kind of night.

I've become a spectator of my own life,  
Not a wink, even though I’ve turned off the light.  
Switching postures, counting sheep,  
Tried every last bit—  
I guess it’s just those kinds of night.

I'm not living in the past,  
Or in the present, for that matter.  
Tried everything to feel alive,  
But the hour I’m thinking all this… isn’t quite right.  
I understand now—  
It’s just those kinds of night.

Numbness Butterfly Cinquain

           Leaving 
      behind silence,
   it’s absence over ice;
I crave impassioned dynamite;
             Settle? 
We only get to do life once,
 don’t tolerate numbness;
     Bend the knee to
            wildfire.

Feeling The Numbness

Feeling My Numbness taking a toll on me
Feeling My Numbness taking a toll on my 
My mind, body and soul,

Feeling My Numbness taking me afar from here
Feeling My  Numbness is scaring me within 

Feeling my numbness 
That no one sees
Feeling my numbness that lead my road
This way of confusion yet finding a solution 
Feeling my numbness 
Lead me who I am today
Feeling my numbness 
Lead me to strength
Faith I never believed in
Yet Faith is all I had to stand on
Feeling my numbness’s lead a lot of pain
Feeling my numbness 
Getting myself out the dark
Picking myself up
Wiping the dust off my shoulders 
Wiping my face
Holding my head up high 
Smiling through the aches

Praying for a better days!

My numbness I feel inside 
I never let it change or defined me…

Numbness

If  we have our heads
Sleeping on our arms
A tingling numbness
Spreads through our hand

Its uncomfortable 
We shake our hand
Till the feelings gone
Then we return to sleep

'Chasing Little Joys'

Title; "Chasing Little Joys"

For quite some time now, I've become desensitized to my challenges 
to the reality of my existence. 
I've been holding on to any moments of joy that provide relief 
even if it's just for a few minutes in order to drown out the constant ache in my heart.

Sleep has become my way to numb myself.
It transports me to a realm, 
where I can shield myself from the demands and pressures of the world.

Life, a maze filled with unknowns, is filled with ups and downs,
laughter and tears, love and heartbreaks.
No matter how tightly you try to control it,
everything twists. Turns lie ahead, both delightful and devastating.

Amid it all, show yourself grace and love 
And perhaps, just perhaps, brighter days will eventually dawn.

I can't claim numbness, for I feel  every feeling in its raw form
I wonder if I'll ever stop chasing those moments of joy,
since sad days are inevitable at the end of the day.

                           The Echoes of a Heart That Feels...

A Disease

Can anyone die of sadness
Like a disease feasting on life from inside
I wish and wonder often
When will these blues come to the shore to drown me finally
Why am I a weightless cloud staying afloat still
Drastically heavy with rain of pain
Darkness is my sanctuary
where emptiness is my only friend
No matter, night or day
I am a prey
To numbness - which leaves me astrayed
I know no language to talk to my demons here
Because my words are exhausted
So I want to rest forever
and forget everyone's names
Will God care enough to embrace me, when no one else did?

~Ayesh

Lament To Life

You don't know
How deep I go
How low I spiral down
You cannot see
That part of me
That somehow needs to drown

You cannot hear 
My cry of fear
To face another day
You try to care
But I'm not there
I've somehow gone away

Inside my head
Already dead
Numbness my surround
I can't be reached
My mind is breached
Beneath me is no ground

But I can't seem to go
And I don't really know
What keeps me here in pain
And as I come back
The tears make a track
As they pour like heavy rain

To wet my face
As I wonder at grace
That has saved me one more time
What is it holds me here
Though still living in fear
One forward step is mine

What is this I feel
Holds like bands of steel
When my choice is to leave this pain
But something stops me going
Though the wish is ever growing
To never open my eyes again

Too many hard memories
Too many weird remedies
How am I supposed to cope
To get through the day
The only way 
Is to take their chemical dope

So I continue to live
And of myself I give
In the hope that I can change
To somehow help you
And see you through
And halt my own mad derange.

Conflicted

"Every struggle in my life has been a lesson and made me stronger" 
Quote by_ Constance La France 

I wish my smile could drown your thoughts of attempting to kill me. 
For my laugh to awaken your desires to pursue me, as opposed to seeking advice from past flames to put me out. 
I needed you to come back to me.
See me in new ways. 
Love me with a healed heart, saved from past pain. 
I was hoping you've changed. 
Ready to upgrade your old habits with thought processed intent. 
Here I am thinking you'd really want us to be. You and me, finally.
Yet, you've built problems anew,
situations I can't ignore.
mishaps or mistakes blinding the truth,
you have always been this rude.
I've kept another version of you,
and yet, I'm the one who's confused... 

15 November 2022
'Writing Challenge - V forms' Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France 
Theme ~ Introspection

Numbness

Let me feel again, 
The reason for my lonesome: 
Cowardly harlot.

Soul Crushing Numbness

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 guess this is what numbness feels like
the ghost inside and out seems alike

The inner demons carry more suspense
When they come and give a nasty glance

Their babble makes impeccable sense
Does fake eerie music stand a chance?

The rapid breathing, the pale face
No longer have any grace

Darkness looks so captivating
It always manages to keep me waiting 

Every day I wait for intense nightmares
Desperate to feel emotions, all its layers

Anger and Numbness

Does numbness set on fire
Sparks fly from a speeding tyre 
Racing towards a funeral pyre
Cutting through snows crossfire
Ice can also start a wildfire
Crystal beads a mind occupier
Spilling over from eyes desire
High speed hitting tripwire.

26.12.2020
Parody of ‘Fire and Ice’
Robert Frost.

Meditate In Numbness

I-t
L-ets
U-s
M-editate
I-n
N-umbness
A-s
D-eath
O-f

A-nyone
N-aturally
G-ives
U-s
L-onely
O-ccasion

Topic: Death of Iluminado D. Angulo (April 18,2020) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Numbness

Silent rejection is the worst kind of pain that can exist
It is an invisible constant bleeding
The only cure is love 
People might say they love you          
but do they show it?
Are you capable of feeling it?
When rejection has been so constant 
there is a numbness that exudes 
a non caring attitude
Lost I am  at times in this world, there are parts of me I have never met
Someone once told me if I don't resolve my past , how can I move forward
I am moving, but the past walks right beside me
I am trying to find someone , but where is he ?
How much longer must I wait for him to come to me
It is very painful to be invisible 
and even more painful to not be able to express it those 
you are invisible too because they will never understand
It is an unknown unexpressed depression of sorts
I have to maintain face, normality through my inner chaos
years of repressed sadness, ignored madness
I think everyone else thinks I see, but I know this is all making me
blind, and I can not find what is really going to make me free

Stage of Numbness

Racing through the grassland
thorns cutting my soles
while the icy wind pinches
this flesh.
And yet I  still persist--
wondering if my heart holds
the key back to spontaneity ?
My lust for life  is  withering
among the black of  time's cinders
a burning in the distance
unkown to me
as I laze around a complacent world
stoic, undefined by apathy--
And then,  I  reach the border
of a railroad park
to find  through a hole
how the sky turns red and alive.



Posted 26 Jan 2019
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