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Numb

Everett Witherspoon

I'm a photograph detaching from everything inside of me
Feeling of hollowness as the picture fade slowly
Dryness in mouth
Stories told by strangers
Lying dormant in dark
My image grow dim and suddenly disappear
I died a thousand times
Just to live a thousand times
Knowing I will die again and live again
Distorted voices fade as they speak
My responsiveness drowns in the abyss
I 've carried the emptiness for a lifetime
Going nowhere
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Written on May 29, 2023

Submitted by ELW on May 29, 2023

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Scheme AABCDEFFGHIJK
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 435
Words 76
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
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4 Comments
  • tashad.83752
    tashad.83752
    Good work, seems like the writer just feels nothing or don't want to feel anything, it's just better to feel,"numb"
    LikeReply11 months ago
  • ajsmart.poop
    ajsmart.poop
    you're loved.
    LikeReply11 months ago
  • PriscillaKing
    PriscillaKing
    Photographs do fade slowly...a sad image to identify with the speaker.
    LikeReply11 months ago
  • adognut
    adognut
    There is a sadness here, a sorrow of the soul because what others say about us becomes who we are, a book judged by its cover and not its contents.
    LikeReply11 months ago

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