Numb Poem by Mwenyeji Spikes

NUMB
: Hang on or probably just hang up,
Walk away from all this mess and take your mind further from it.
Interesting how this should all end,
Perhaps you had wished for a happier ending.

Numb is how you feel and the sour taste left on your tongue won't help,
Stay up late and count ways of how worse this could have gone,
Its better now, you break up with your demons.
Bottomless pit of despair, but you still feel your feet,
A desperate fight to stand again, still all you find is an empty heart, numb.
You cry of hurt, yet tears won't flow,
Sad and bitter yet your lemons couldn't make lemonade, so anger ensues.
All this time you lost would perhaps have better been spent not
building castles, now all comes tumbling down.

Walk along don't pause on your way, the grief grips your heart and
you tried your happy melody, still you stand numb.
Scars will heal, you tell your heart, innocent to believe but time
won't rush so you go over the ordeal in cold slow flashes, heart numb.