For Those Who Can No Longer Feel

A Poem by Gabby Nieves

Did you happen to feel the wind leaving your lungs

As you exhaled your very last breath?

The moments you let pass by

And the people who slipped away

Did you feel all you could,

Or anything at all?

When the earth consumed your soul

Did it consume your regret too?

The sadness you tucked away

Underneath your fake smile and monotonous life

All for what?

As the leaves now wisp past your gravestone

And the flowers begin to wilt

Do you remember your flesh?

Every ounce of life you took for granted

Sitting, starring into your coffee

When you should have been telling her how you felt

Does your office job settle into your bones

And make you wish you could feel again?

The seasons change,

Change,
And change again

Right before our eyes,

But how many of us actually see it?

The taste of pumpkin,

Peppermint,

And Ice Pops dripping down your chin

The freedom of the open road

How sad to have lived so dead

For those who can no longer feel

Would you do it all again,

Except backwards?

With the sound of running footsteps beating above,

One could only hope

To catch a glimpse of light,

Or a grain of dirt

To feel,

When you can no longer feel

© 2015 Gabby Nieves

Author's Note

please excuse the obnoxious amounts of questions in this one, I usually hate them but I don't know. I'm feeling something idkidkdikdidk

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TheOptimisticrealist

Brutally honest critic: I really enjoyed this poem. Today you asked me if i was happy doing the job i was doing. To be honest i can only say i am in limbo. Not happy or sad just there if you know what i mean? I sometimes stay up late at night letting mind wander. Wondering if i had found myself sooner would my life better and whole bunch other what if's? I think back to old me who was just going through motions not really living and not being able truly feel anything or care about anyone and truthfully just being selfish. In recent years i have changed i look for more outta life. This poem even though it is dark has positive message about life. Good job i give you an A- lol.