Corners Of My Mind

Challenge to write about the thumb nailed image.

No one's ever really seen her
no one but me.
She hides in the shadows
and sneaks around in
the corners of my
mind.

She waits till I'm finally sleeping
to come out and play with me.
I don't care for her games.
Once I fall into her shadows,
she messes with my head
and screws with my
reality.

Her games aren't funny, not anymore.
I've stopped playing, but she's angry,
demanding that I play with her,
that I become her
puppet.

She is the sick and twisted
shadow of myself.
She manifested when I couldn't
force myself to be sane anymore
She is the darkness within me
that is always waiting,
hiding and lurking
in the obscurity
in the corner of my
mind.


N. Strong

Reviews

[Anicca]

This was absolutely brilliant, the imagery was very strong.

When my friend committed suicide I used to have hallucinations and she would visit me and f**k with my mind, to the extent that I felt insafe in my own skin etc, this very much reminded me of those times.

Thanks for sharing.

[Brette Medb]

This poem reminded me of a book I read when I was little; Coraline. I think they even made it into a movie recently. The sadistic other half. I loved the emotion in this piece. Brilliant write.


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[misha]

wow, great job. So clear, what a great poem

[Adam :P]

brillinant. enjoyed reading this. love the whole thing.

[Creep]

Perfect! She is insecurity. She is a sociopath. She is pessimism. And she doesn't care if you put your hands over your ears or not. She is smiling.

[Tate Morgan]

Ah like real life once the patterns of a relationship are set the other never wants to give up the power that once they had the relationship called doom

[TadKent]

Intense, dark, gripping. Enyojed this immensely. Sometimes we all fight the "bad" in ourselves,haha.

[Taylor H.]

Loved this. Thank you for writing it.

[M.Kilani]

Don't we all have that voice whispering in our heads, always hiding for some time, and f***s the crap out of our lives when it shows itself !!
Great piece, the title is catchy, and the poem gives a sense of darkness and evil to the reader, which I like for the moment !!
well done

[Penulis Kecil]

We've all got a little bit of the crazy in us! Hang in there, alk.