Numb

Feeling down

Paralysis strikes

Crunches down

With jaws that strive

Sink in it's ghastly teeth

Heartache has no cure

When tragedy bites hard

A heart may bleed

Continue to run

Beat it's beat

But there is no love

The monotonous pumping

Indeed continues

But does it still occur

When one no longer feels?

For if it does

I have no sense at all

For all I see

Are the tears that fall

And I've learned to block out

Live it up

And move on

Try to forget

Instead of holding on

But at times when numb,

A ghost feeling arises

Like an old limb

That once existed

Reaches out to grasp

And catches thin air

That branch does cry

For it senses life

But death has taken it

And memory finds revenge

And at that point

I feel the murmur

Some whisper of life

Telling me to live

And I stroke these words

And hold them tight

Keep them in my pocket

To safeguard It's memory

In case they forget

But as a lost cause

I will never regret

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