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#posttraumaticstressdisorder
The ancient Warrior lay on his bed and shivered As the Ghosts of long killed Enemies Returned to haunt him, And the throw from a spear-long-turned-to-dust Finally killed him.
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Jan 7
Jan 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM UTC
Won-Battle-Lost
have you ever felt your memories crawl up your throat? the pain of each nightmare coming afloat. the flashbacks swallow you whole. there's no hope for your soul. do you live your terrors day after day? the corrupted thoughts won't go away. its blade slices your skin allowing the bad thoughts in. save me. hear me. pull me from this pit please, before i quit. give up on this. it's them you'll miss. release me subdue me please let me be free.
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Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024 at 3:35 PM UTC
PleaseTakeSomeDread
My father hid himself within the smoke underneath my ribcage Sometimes he rattles his fingers underneath my bones and squirms his hands around my ticker He taught the monster under my bed to crawl under my skin and stick his filthy fingers in the cracks of my brain and break it in half His name echoes the canals of my ears and his shadow haunts every step I wish I could’ve made
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Jul 2, 2022
Jul 2, 2022 at 9:31 PM UTC
Paralysed
breaking apart in bits of Styrofoam; please use to pack up your holes fragile: handle carefully, my body says; i stopped listening
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Jan 15, 2018
Jan 15, 2018 at 11:08 AM UTC
Fragile:
Even when my skull vibrates from the screaming in my head. I will wrap my sturdy arms around me, fear and all, fear especially. I will whisper, quiet but sure "I will not hurt myself the way they did." I.       Will.                   NOT.                                      Hurt.                                                            Myself!
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Dec 9, 2018
Dec 9, 2018 at 7:54 PM UTC
Taught behaviors.
It was a bad night last night My tear stained cheeks and sliced up wrists can vouch. I never know what I'm thinking anymore... Or why. I just know that I am. It's scary, You know... Being like this. I get scared, and other people get scared. More often than not, I can't control these thoughts... These protruding and unwelcome thoughts but I don't know what to do. I never know what to do anymore. I just know that I've had a lot of bad nights lately. A lot of them. But I don't know what to do.
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May 22, 2018
May 22, 2018 at 3:49 PM UTC
Unmedicated