Life Numbness Poems

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...

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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...

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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...

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"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...

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At the back of my palate
Near the top of my throat
Lies a region as holy
As the blood of a goat

Now feeling numb
Insensitive to scent
I wonder...

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DRY MASCARA

Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...

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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...

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Lone and cradle of bone
Alone I am in crowded cone
Phone is stay on the air
Amid of voices I hear thousands fear
Slough of golden serpent runs...

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Numb the pain, throbbing inside me
My faith has crumbled into crumbs of deception
Numb the pain, coursing through my veins
You're keeping me sane and I'd like...

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Her screaming 
Yet somehow i managed to see her death in my mind
Just to be reunited with him
I curled and rolled in bed
Missing and wishing
Crying...

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When tragedy strikes,
what happens to you?

Do you roll yourself up in
bubble wrap,
box yourself in
and pray that no one finds you?

or do you b-R-e-A-K
into a million...

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I’m heartless. 
I don’t know where my heart is.

Hateful, 
I’m looking for my happiness.

But I can’t move, 
I’m footless. 
Grounded feeling low 
like the ground...

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Standing here alone
looking into empty
cold hands ache.
Just once, for the
first time I would
like to see into
your eyes.

Find me whole inside.
instead of shattered
here and blowing
in the...

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Numbness is what I'm feeling,
But I don't know how to explain,
Other than it currently seems
I'm being sucked down the drain.

It's hard to put on a...

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