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Twisted and Turns

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Twisted and Turns


Twisted and turns

Flowers and hearts are cruelly burnt

Swirling blood seeps onto the fair skin it leaves

Flowering tears make river of pain

Moment of thought repeated again and again

Emotional fear quivering in its wake

Pain so real

These feelings not fake

Rolling eyes as anger takes hold

Sweat and adrenaline from many jumbled emotions passing through my brain

In deep depression

Hard to differentiate real and response

The swirling head

Mine does not belong here

In a tunnel of darkness

I can’t find the end

Only poetry gave me a helping hand

Will my head never be mine

Chronic pain tiring on this head of mine

Outside functionality normal

Inside living my own hell

Beauty, no priority

My continued pain inner hell

Chronic pain will forever dwell

Only poetry keeps me sane

No more dark tunnels in my life

Nightmares continue

From child to adult

Never to leave me

Functioning each day a reality

No more swirling and twisted turns

Metaphors of depression

Once visited, never quite gone

For a year, I felt my own earth quake

Three years on, living in the aftermath

Never to leave

Chronic pain, past depression and me


Toria

30/11/2021

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