Numb

Not my usual style but I found it very interesting trying to deviate from it

Shapes coalesce in the darkness,
Take form then dissipate
Spectres of past intentions so lightly surrendered to hopelessness,
Quickly replaced as my soul grows cold with inaction,
If life lacks direction, then I see no attraction,
The rawest form of numbness permeates my being
Mercilessly tearing asunder any suggestion of an answer to my myriad of questions
A silent violence,
And a violent silence
Simultaneously creeping and sprinting,
Wide-eyed and squinting
Screaming and whispering
Burning and blistering
A horror film with no sound and no credits,
Beyond myself, no audience, no cast,
No monsters or villains,
Just the steady and nauseating churning of an empty belly trying to fuel an empty mind
The urgent, self-consuming hunger, an unintended masochism,
A lifestyle limited by the stark absence of self-control from my corrupted genetics,
All or nothing,
Wasted or sober,
Living or dying.

Reviews

[ettorney]

Nice and expressive. My favorite lines are a silent violence and a violent silence.

So much depth in those lines. Evocative and fearful but offers a promise of an act that is both violent and not unexpected.

Well done.