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 |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 97 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 5, 5 |
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