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numbness

maybe all i need to stop this pain is a little motrin.

maybe all i need to stop this bleeding is a band-aid.

maybe all i need to stop this screaming are some ear plugs.

maybe all i need to stop this drowning is a life raft.

maybe all i need to stop this agony is a little numbness.

 

numbness...

 

 

it wears off,  doesn't stop the pain only holds back the flood gates

of sleepless nights and screaming hearts, bloodshot eyes and rejections knife.

just long enough for me to catch a glimmer of hope, a mirage

in the Sahara, so beautiful yet so cruel.  

just as i get close enough to taste

a sweet tomorrow,

the desert sun sets.

and i'm still bleeding,

and you're still

gone.

 

maybe all i need to stop this searching is a little less hope.

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Written by
emmajane
19 / F
Published
Jul 11, 2015
Lines·Words
17·141
Notes

feedback? i kinda like this as spoken work....thoughts ;)

Tags
#heartbreak#sadness#sun#loss#thoughts#desert#heartache#draft#mirage
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