PTSD

Why go back

when you can move forward?

I face this question

each day I breathe.

It's not always so easy

to answer.

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Disorder

Keeps me looking back

to my past

behind my shoulder.

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Usually associated

with our war heroes.

The ones who can't leave

the battlefield behind.

I am not one of them.

I am just

an anxious

a depressed

in pain

person.

But I can't help

that I have it.

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My battlefield

was the school,

the classrooms,

the playground.

The babysitter,

the dark closets,

the dark rooms,

the basement.

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The anxiety

the migraines

the depression

the fibro

no sleep.

All lead back

to square one.

The abuse

by my peers

by my teachers

by my babysitter.

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Four easy letters

Four simple words

Lifetime in pain

from those simple things

from those not so simple things.

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Disorder.

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