Dark poetry: Comfortably Numb

Posted by Just Patty on June 13, 2015

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Comfortably Numb

–

Hiding behind

Dead eyes

An iron heart

To prevent

Falling apart

and

Losing my

Mind

Silent tears

Pushing back

No one can see

The mess

That is me

and

My haunting

Fears

Steel protection

Not showing

What I feel

Pushing away

Affection

and

what is

Real

Slipping away

Inside myself

A lost phantom

Painfully vanishing

Today

and

become comfortably

Numb…

–

Just Patty

6 comments on “Dark poetry: Comfortably Numb”

charliezero1.wordpress.com on June 16, 2015 at 12:42 am said:

Patty, you are brilliant! Dark, deep, & such a wonderful passionate soul.
I feel your emotions in this poem. It breaths what makes us frighten of ourselves,
or frighten by others. If anyone can put themselves in our shoes of what we been through, they will understand the pain and humiliation that we’ve endured.

However, with our poems we become stronger, unstoppable and caring people with a soul and a heart for the world.

Beautiful poem patty. I support you and because we know what its like to feel this way.

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- Just Patty on June 16, 2015 at 10:54 am said:
  
  Thank you so much Charlie.
  It’s hard for people to understand the complexity of living and fighting with PTSD.
  I hope that I, through my poems, can show at least a little bit how it is so people will understand better.
  Love & Hugz ❤
  
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  - charliezero1.wordpress.com on June 16, 2015 at 6:07 pm said:
    
    I know exactly what you mean. Just yesterday I was getting flash-backs and started to cry. It just getting flash-backs, you try to forget about it. But it just doesn’t stop. I know poetry is the medicine for PTSD. And that’s really the good cure for nightmares.
    
    You patty are doing a wonderful and beautiful job writing and expressing your poetry to the world.
  - Just Patty on June 22, 2015 at 3:33 pm said:
    
    Thank you Charlie.
    Yes, those flashbacks and nightmares are crippling. It’s like living with a time machine in your head, but you can’t control it. The only thing that you can try to do is to not let it control you either. PTSD will always be a part of us. But we are so much more than just our diagnoses!
    Stay strong.
    Love & Hugz always ❤
philipfontana on June 14, 2015 at 4:17 am said:

Patty, “Excellently Dark,’ so much so it is somewhat frightening to me. It seems too Dark to not be you present feelings. I hope you are fooling me & expressing this for someone else & their feelings that you once experienced …….as you taught me long ago you do & write about…..I hope. Phil

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- Just Patty on June 15, 2015 at 5:46 pm said:
  
  Thank you Phil.
  No worries, it’s in the past for me, but in the present of someone I hold very dear.
  I hope that I can show the light to him this way.
  Being comfortably numb can be very tempting if you felt a lot of pain, but it’s not a permanent solution.
  Love & Hugz ❤
  
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