By Bridget O
Date: 2002 Aug 01
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Numbing Pain

the usual:
cant sleep
can't eat.
cant communicate right.
i think I've been kicked off earth
and I'm floating in some other dimension.
why wont they stop asking for advice?
I'm not a column in a newspaper.
i should get paid to listen.
and yet i love it.
its the grinding
of my gears
they keep grinding to make me move
but my body rejects their movements.
and at night
in the dark
the noise gets louder
and louder
until i cant take the night
and now the day is starting to scare me.
i eat a little because my brain is saying you need food.
but my stomach rejects it.
i love because my brain says, you need to care
but my heart doesn't.
my head is pounding, saying i need medicine
but the pills, they just don't help me anymore.
i guess i need something stronger
some love stronger
some stronger love pills to strangle this pain
this gnawing pain
on the inside.