Disassociation

By monodemo

Tue, 14 Apr 2020
  • 732 reads
2 comments
 

My body numb,

My emotions stunted,

The mind shut down,

‘Help me’ I grunted.

 

The contributor, stress,

When will it end?

Are you real?

Or are you a friend?

 

Evasive manoeuvres?

I can’t decide,

In my mom

In whom i confide.

 

What to do

My body flails

All I feel

Ants under my nails

 

I hate this feeling

It causes altercations

And it is called

Disassociation.

Certificate U
Poem
2020
Surreal
Other Non-fiction

Comments

Submitted by GoroxMax on

Hi! This is brilliant. It really chimed with me - I've been through this exact feeling very recently.

I loved the phrase 'ants under my nails;' it really vividly describes that itchy feeling of anxiety. 

 

Submitted by onemorething on

I think your subject matter is always interesting and brave. I admire that. Disassociation is a hard thing to convey too. I'm glad to see a poem written about it. Just to say, and it could just be me that I don't understand your third stanza, how the first two lines of it connect to the next two lines. Could just be me though. Rachel :)