Numbness



Numbness

Breathing feels much easier
Is this heaven?
So much lighter
Just the way I like it
Can’t it be like this forever?
Infinite thoughtlessness
Gravitating around me are emotions
They can’t touch me
I’m in heaven

Nothing appears
Or disappears
Just a blossoming tightness surrounds me
It beats my thoughts
This is heaven

Noise wins against the calm silence
It envelopes me
Into a hug
I don’t like this
Why couldn’t it be forever?

About this poem

It explores a situation where numbness overtakes you in a traumatic moment and you’re stuck in time for sometime and then coming back to the present that you dread

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Written on July 18, 2023

Submitted by nuhanseek on July 18, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAXACCDB CCDCB CDXCA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 462
Words 97
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 9, 5, 5

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