How It Feels To Be Strangled To Death

How It Feels To Be Strangled To Death

A Poem by Yashika

First, you feel the pressure in your throat.
Your eyes water and you start to taste something very, very sour in your mouth.
Then, it's like someone lights a match right in the middle of your chest and that fire grows.
It fills your lungs and your throat, and all the way behind your eyes.
And finally the fire turns to ice, 
like pins and needles of ice are sticking into your fingers, your toes, your arms.
You see stars, then darkness.
And the last thing you feel, is cold.

© 2021 Yashika


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read the title wrong at first

i see now what you were getting at

heavy wordplay, and good way to illustrate an ominous experience

Posted 3 Years Ago


Yashika this is so pure.....you catched feelings in such an amazing way.

Posted 3 Years Ago


Dear Yashika your lines sent shivers down my spine. I have no idea, how strangulation must feel except that many women throughout the world meet their end this way. A tragedy for so many, their friends and loved ones. We live in violent times, much of it perpetrated by the male of our species. Thank you for speaking out.

Chris

Posted 3 Years Ago



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Added on June 24, 2021
Last Updated on June 24, 2021
Tags: death, dark

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Yashika
Yashika

Bangalore, Karnataka, India



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I love to write and read. Sure, the poems often turn out to be a little dark, but I'm a solid pOsItIvE person. I have no time to mourn over anything because I'm always busy writing or reading or sleep.. more..

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