Silent Pain

It comes like a wolf in the night hidden in the darkness of my mind

With no sign of attack but once it does it doesn't let go

It knocks the wind out of me and my chest tightens

I feel its jaws strong around my neck with no sign of weakness 

"Hey... are you okay?"

HELP ME 

I want to scream but my own voice betraying me in my mind

Stop struggling it tells me 

Just give in 

You don't have any worth you monster

It keeps telling me

My hands claw at my skin as I try to free myself from the jaws of this beast

Then all I hear is static

White noise pulling me into the void 

Into the ocean of screaming voices that are trying to choke the life out of me

I shiver in the cold as the ocean fills my lungs and I try to grab anything to break free

There is too much yet there is nothing at all

The world is spinning and the room feels like a small cage

And once it goes and the climax fades

I feel nothing 

I'm adrift in space

No energy 

No life 

My limbs feel as though they are made of metal and I feel like a shell

The person who was once filled with life, joy and love is now gone.

Replaced with a shell of who they once were

"Are you okay?" They ask me

And all I can do is nod 

Although it feels as though I died 

All I did was weep sliently on my seat alone.

This poem is about: 
Me

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