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Chapter 5 - Emotional Death

Alive but not living

Screaming but silent

In excruciating pain but numb

Loving but hating

I've jumped right off the cliff

Down into the depths of despair

Nothing is ever fair

My heart and hope killed by this rift

Hope whispering lies

Despair shouting promises

My heart as cracked and dry as the desert

My mind flooded with a tsunami of tears

Trapped in this asylum of misery

That slope was just too slippery

Riddled by criticisms artillery

Suffering whiplash injury

Breathing but suffocating

Seeing but blind

Eating but starved

Listening but deaf

Staring at a clock with no hands

Thinking through Landmines of memories

Injured by bullet after bullet of self doubt

The days bleeding into nights into months into years

Each second another lead weight on my heart

The dust of hope fleeting away with the wind

Shadows of darkness closing in

I'm dying dead and then

Nothing