Something Like Love

To break away the pieces and expose who I could be

To peel away my sorrows and to love infinitely 

I'd give my every breath for just a day to feel free

Damned is a life lived in secrecy 

I'd throw away the hurt

I'd forgive every grudge

Internally imprisioned 

I forget, what is love?

My hearts become patchwork 

No room for one more stitch 

Is my soul even whole?

Was it there to begin with?

 

To break away the pieces and expose who I could be

To peel away my sorrows and to love infinitely 

The words are rather pretty for such an impossible feat 

As the world grew cold

a defiance grew in me

Anger turned to ashes 

Regret dripped into the cracks

What became of all that passion?

Fading into endless black 

I forget, what is trust?

Something like love

Nothing like hate

Who'd of known that betrayal would soon become our fate?

 

To break away the pieces and expose who I could be

To peel away my sorrows and to love infinitely 

The images are hazy,

I squint and barely see

The mirror you've become brings the worse out in me

It mirrors for,

a million miles,

going on indefinitely

At every turn

and bend

and split

My reflection beckons me to it

I forget, what is life?

Desperation can barely utter

My screams are now soft spoken mutters

I grip the mirror,

it won't give way

Am I nothing but another teenage cliche?

In the end there isn't a soul to blame

for living dissolute, to my dismay 

And I force the curtains to close

on this tragic play

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This was a poem I wrote while in treatment for depersonalization disorder, therefore the meaning is extremely muddled and this is not like my usual work. I just want to keep it to look back on.  Unfamiliar with depersonalization disorder ? 

 

Common descriptions of symptoms are: feeling disconnected from one's physicality; feeling as though one is not completely occupying the body; not feeling in control of one's speech or physical movements; feeling detached from one's own thoughts or emotions; a sense of automation, going through the motions of life but not experiencing it or participating in it; loss of conviction with one's identity; feeling a disconnection from one's body; inability to accept one's reflection as one's own; difficulty relating oneself to reality and the environment; feeling as though one is in a dream. 

 

I often felt like life was a play I had the option to close the curtains on, hence the last two lines. 

 

Thanks if you read it!

 

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deepinyourdreams's picture

At least you got some

At least you got some treatment...Back in the day, you got smacked on the head and told to wake the hell up...lol


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Morningglory's picture

Absolutely loved this. By the

Absolutely loved this. By the way, I think you have a typo last line of first stanza. "What it there to begin with?" Should say "Was" ? Anyway, I'm really enjoying reading your works. 


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Incompl's picture

Thanks for catching that, and

Thanks for catching that, and I could say the same about yours. 


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nightlight1220's picture

This is very beautiful,

This is very beautiful, incompl. I hope that you are feeling whole and beautiful now with or without your label. Everyone has a time they feel there is a gaping hole inside that most are taught to fill with things of the outer world. Sometimes it takes a label of someking to realize that it even can be filled at all. Blessings. I love your writing and also enjoy the small explanation of the label! I am sure it is a very dibilitating disorder to have, and hope you have learned the solace of privacy without the roadblocks that be created when one forgets to 'fill the soul' and 'feed the head' with things that fullfill those parts. Peace.


...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."

"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "

 

Incompl's picture

Thank you so much...

Though it is a constant battle, I am starting to feel like I'm beating this disorder. Writing has given all I could ever want as far as healing goes, though I have discovered I cannot fill my void with it, it took me a lot longer than I would of liked to make that discovery. I developed severe social anxiety and it's rather hard to fuction in a 'social world' I receded into my self, I am still trying to imerge (: I cannot explain how much your words mean to me, I have only ever showed my writing to my sister, so this is all new to me. 


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