Poems of Nothing

Shattered Reality, Pain © Hannah Ackerman 10/26/2011

Shattered Reality

I am lost in the pain and darkness of my own mind. Reality is blurring dangerously.  I awake some days not knowing if I am still dreaming or awake. I know not if reality is my dreams or that my dreams are my reality. Nightmares are Dreamscapes or my Dreams are my Nightmares. Breaking Glass shattered to thousands of glittering pieces or dust covered and long forgotten on the floor of some abandoned web covered homestead.

Pain

This pain is shooting, searing into me. Tears run down my cheeks. Tears not of heartache but of sheer pain I would sell almost anything I own to make it stop forever. I would possibly even trade this pain for heartache than let it continue. It buries teeth and claws into my back raking my shoulders and neck to ribbons while it does the most damage to my brain. Biting through my spine and leaving me an empty husk of a human being.