without any memory
of being alive
i am frozen in time
with echos of past lives
living in all this pain
i manage to survive
possessing my hippocampus
my demon thrives
as it consumes my nerves
painting then with knives

every memory destroyed
i cling on to her
until she gets lost in the void
for those precious moments
she is my opioid
until she's gone from existence
and her relief i am devoid